Postmortem spasm
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Sometimes, after an organism has died, small movements of the limbs (a twitch of a finger or even a whole leg moving) can be observed. This phenomenon, known as postmortem spasm, can be observed in human cadavers as well as smaller organisms that have died.
[edit] See also
- Cadaveric spasm
- Galvanism
- Postmortem movement
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