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.
The onset of rigor is hastened if there has been intense physical activity shortly before death. Thus, in forensic medical practice, the presence of rigor is a poor determinant of the time of death. Once established, the duration of rigor ranges from 18 to 36 hours.