Rigor: A word with two different but related meanings in medicine: 1. A chill, usually with shivering, as at the onset of high fever and chills. 2. Rigidity, as in rigor mortis, the rigidity of a body after death. The alternate spelling rigour is chiefly British. From the French, from the Latin rigor, meaning stiffness, from rigere, to be stiff.
-ine is a suffix used in chemistry to denote two kinds of substance. The first is a chemically basic and alkaloidal substance.
Suffixes are word ends and parts of words which can be added to other words to change the meaning.One example is adding '-ly' to the end of an adjective to create an adverb: for example, adding '-ly' to the adjective 'slow' creates the adverb 'slowly'.uffixes are word ends and parts of words which can be added to other words to change the meaning.