blood transformation in a deceased body...please help

[laidbackruby]

hihi,

i am writing short story and I remember reading a long time ago about a process the can/does happen when a person dies...

i can't remember the name given to the process but think it starts with the letter L...

i remember at the time interpreting it as follows;

when a body dies, blood pools to the surface of the skin like bruises...

its killing me as i want to use the term in this story i am writing!!

if you know please help,

thanking you in advance,

Lou

[qsducks]

Um, welcome to the garden. Yuck. No really, welcome here.

[laidbackruby]

thanks ...not really a good topic I know!

[laidbackruby]

ok, scrap that...in case anyone is wondering;

Livor mortis or postmortem lividity or hypostasis (Latin: livor—bluish color, mortis—of death), one of the signs of death, is a settling of the blood in the lower (dependent) portion of the body, causing a purplish red discoloration of the skin: when the heart is no longer agitating the blood, heavy red blood cells sink through the serum by action of gravity. This discoloration does not occur in the areas of the body that are in contact with the ground or another object, as the capillaries are compressed...

i found it in an old writing journal...

[Lon]

Originally Posted by laidbackruby

ok, scrap that...in case anyone is wondering;

Livor mortis or postmortem lividity or hypostasis (Latin: livor—bluish color, mortis—of death), one of the signs of death, is a settling of the blood in the lower (dependent) portion of the body, causing a purplish red discoloration of the skin: when the heart is no longer agitating the blood, heavy red blood cells sink through the serum by action of gravity. This discoloration does not occur in the areas of the body that are in contact with the ground or another object, as the capillaries are compressed...

i found it in an old writing journal...

Livor mortis will clear up during the embalming process as the embalming fluid displaces the body's blood.

[fuzzy butt]

I would have thought an introduction thread would have been more ........oh i don't know umm genuine?

Hello BTW!!! Welcome to the forum

You should see it when it's the head that is the lower portion Hmm no I shouldn't laugh. It's actually quite revolting.

[OpenMind]

Hi, LBR. A 'novel' way of introducing yourself.

What's the poll about by the way?

[spot]

There are, I suppose, lots of people called Ruby in Queensland. Now I've seen two of them.

Welcome to ForumGarden.

[fuzzy butt]

well it must be a queeny thing cause I don't know, or ever have known anyone called ruby. but queenslanders are a bit different. They have Joe!!!!wah:

Hmm to put it into perspective turn Australia on it's end ...............YOu want rednecks? you go north, not south.

[laidbackruby]

thanks for the welcomes!...i see i was totally naive to how forums work & should have introduced myself first...nothing better though then to use the dead to introduce the living!


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