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.
Because of its subjectivity it is not a term that can be used in animal medicine. rigor complexes. formed when actin and myosin bond together strongly in the absence of ATP; occurs in rigor mortis. rigor mortis. the stiffening of a dead body accompanying depletion of adenosine triphosphate in the muscle fibers.igÂ·or morÂ·tis. Stiffening of the body, from 1-7 hours after death, due to hardening of the muscular tissues in consequence of the coagulation of the myosinogen and paramyosinogen. Synonym(s): postmortem rigidity.