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The paling of skin that can occur after death as circulation ceases.
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- postmortem pallor
- pallor mortis
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The examination recorded pallor mortis alongside other observations.
The novelist distinguished pallor mortis from the visitor’s ordinary pallor.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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