48 hours after death the body begins to decompose and the internal organs decompose.
24-72 hours after death — the internal organs decompose.
3-5 days after death — the body starts to bloat and blood-containing foam leaks from the mouth and nose.
8-10 days after death — the body turns from green to red as the blood decomposes and the organs in the abdomen accumulate gas.
Several weeks after death — nails and teeth fall out.
1 month after death — the body starts to liquify.
Cadaveric Spasms typically occur within 2 to 3 hours after death although it can sometimes occur as long as 24 hours after death.
Cadaveric spasm is a rare form of muscle stiffening that occurs at the moment of death.
Cadaveric spasm is often associated with extreme nervous stimulation or violent death.
The way you pronounce the word cadaveric spasm is ca·dav·eric spasm.
Cadaveric spasms are also known as postmortem spasms, instantaneous rigor mortis, cataleptic rigidity, or instantaneous rigidity.
A cadaveric spasm is a rare form of muscular stiffening that occurs at the moment of death and persists into the period of rigor mortis.
Liver Mortis is the pooling of the blood in the body which is due to gravity and the lack of blood circulation as a result of the cessation of cardiac activity.
These factors cause the blood to pool in the lowest points of the body, giving the skin a purplish-red discoloration.
When the heart stops functioning and is no longer agitating the blood, heavy red blood cells sink through the serum by action of gravity.
The blood travels faster in warmer conditions and slower in colder conditions.
Livor mortis starts in 20–30 minutes, but is usually not observable by the human eye until two hours after death.
The size of the patches increases in the next three to six hours, with maximum lividity occurring between eight and twelve hours after death.
The blood pools into the interstitial tissues of the body.
The intensity of the color depends upon the amount of reduced haemoglobin in the blood.
The discoloration does not occur in the areas of the body that are in contact with the ground or another object, in which capillaries are compressed.
The early post-mortem phase is most frequently estimated using the classical triad of post-mortem changes – rigor mortis, livor mortis, and algor mortis.
Rigor mortis is the postmortem stiffening of the body's muscles.
Livor mortis is the purple-red coloration that appears on dependent portions of the body other than areas exposed to pressure after the heart ceases to beat.
It results from the settling of the blood under the force of gravity.