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 the hardening of body muscles after death because of the body's loss of adenosine triphosphate (or ATP), which is a substance that gives energy to the muscles. Rigor mortis' general timeline moves from initial stiffening of the muscles to them regaining more flexibility again.