Insoluble fiber from tangerines and other foods can lower your risk of diverticular disease, a condition that causes pouches to form in your intestinal tract. When food gets stuck in these pouches, your intestines become inflamed, causing severe pain, a condition known as diverticulitis.
Medical Definition of Rigor. 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.
Rigor mortis is a stiffening of the muscles that takes place after death. It will usually start to take place about three hours after death. Full rigor mortis is reached usually within 12 hours of death. Rigor mortis is usually finished after 72 hours, but may last a little longer.