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Define Cadaveric spasm

Updated: 9/18/2023

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When the muscles stiffen at the moment of death due to an intense emotion or violent death. (Usually the hand, fingers)

Example: A drowned victim was found clutching grass in one hand from the water's edge.

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carpopedal spasm are spasm of the hand or foot, or of the thumbs and great toes.

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My hand just had a spasm!

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As he fell, he could feel a spasm in his back.

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