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Lividity is a dark purple discolouration of the skin resulting from the gravitational pooling of blood in the veins and capillary beds of the dependent parts of the body following cessation of the circulation. The process begins immediately after the circulation stops, and in a person dying slowly with circulatory failure, it may be pronounced very shortly after death. Lividity is present in all bodies, although it may be inconspicuous in some and thus escape notice.

Lividity is able to develop post mortem under the influence of gravity because the blood remains liquid rather than coagulating throughout the vascular system. Within about 30-60 minutes of death the blood in most corpses, dead from natural or non-natural causes, becomes permanently incoagulable. This is due to the release of fibrinolysins, especially from small calibre vessels, e.g. capillaries, and from serous surfaces, e.g. the pleura. Clots may persist when the mass of clot is too large to be liquified by the fibrinolysin available at the site of clot formation. In some deaths associated with infection and cachexia, this fibrinolytic effect may fail to develop, explaining the presence of abundant clot in the heart and large calibre vessels. Thus, in cases of sudden death the blood remains spontaneously coagulable only during a brief period immediately following death; it then becomes completely free from fibrinogen and will never again clot. This incoagulability of the blood is a commonplace observation at autopsy. The fluidity of the blood is not characteristic of any special cause or mechanism of death although many texts state that the blood remains liquid longer in asphyxial deaths. (Ref. 19 at p. 38-40).

See Section 3 of http://www.dundee.ac.uk/forensicmedicine/llb/timedeath.htm
for a full explanation of lividity

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