cadaveric spasm

Dutch translation: doodskramp

21:29 Dec 2, 2003

English to Dutch translations [Non-PRO]
Medical

English term or phrase: cadaveric spasm

Een dode houdt iets vast in z'n hand die helemaal verkrampt is.

cadaveric spasm

- yeah, the death grip.

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Local time: 17:44

Dutch translation:doodskramp

Explanation:
lijkt me een mooie poëtische vertaling. Het gaat om direct optredende lijkstijfheid van bepaalde spieren.

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Gerard de Noord
France
Local time: 17:44

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doodskramp

Gerard de Noord

rigor mortis

Miriam Linschoten, PhD (X)

doodsgreep

Linda Switten

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6 mins confidence:

rigor mortis

Explanation:
Wordt hier wellicht rigor mortis (lijkstijfheid) bedoeld?

Miriam Linschoten, PhD (X)
Local time: 09:44
Native speaker of: Dutch
PRO pts in pair: 235

11 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

doodskramp

Explanation:
lijkt me een mooie poëtische vertaling. Het gaat om direct optredende lijkstijfheid van bepaalde spieren.

Gerard de Noord
France
Local time: 17:44
Native speaker of:

Dutch
PRO pts in pair: 667

3 days 13 hrs confidence:

doodsgreep

Explanation:
Ik vond de volgende definitie voor cadaveric spasm:

What is cadaveric spasm? Have you ever seen it?

"Cadaveric spasm" refers to a kind of instant rigor mortis. After we die, the muscles of the body stiffen, from using up its oxygen supply and because wastes - carbon dioxide and urea - are no longer brought away from the muscle cells. It also has to do with the depletion of muscle enzymes. So, cadaveric spasm is a muscle phenomenon in which some muscles of the body become stiff instantly, rather than in the usual two to eight hours normal rigor takes to develop. The reason for such rapid rigor mortis, usually, is the extreme exertion of the muscles during the act of dying, especially as can happen during a struggle.

So, for instance, when somebody is in a struggle with another person before dying, the hand muscles may go into instant rigor mortis -- like in a mystery novel, when a button is tightly grasped in the hand of the deceased and is found later when the hand is opened. There are cases of people who have collapsed and died of a heart attack while long-distance running, and rigor mortis set in much faster in those cases, because of the depletion of oxygen and buildup of waste that occurs during such stressful exercise.

http://www.hbo.com/autopsy/baden/qa_5.html

Linda Switten
Belgium
Local time: 17:44
Native speaker of:

Dutch
PRO pts in pair: 19

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