See Also: postmortem hypostasis(medicine)
Hypostasis(medicine)
hypostasis(dictionary)
pulmonary hypostasis(medicine)
gley(encyclopedia)
Gley(medicine)
gley(2)(dictionary)
gley(1)(dictionary)
Gley's gland(medicine)
Postmortem(medicine)

gley(1) (iou) and postmortem hypostasis (medicine)


gley(1) (iou)



gley noun. Also glei. E20.
[Ukrainian gleu sticky bluish clay, cogn. with CLAY noun.]
Soil Science. A sticky blue-grey waterlogged soil or soil layer in which iron is reduced to the ferrous form; such a soil having brownish mottling due to oxidation during intermittent dry periods. Also gley soil.
gleyed adjective turned into a gley M20.
gleying noun = GLEIZATION M20.

postmortem hypostasis (medicine)


postmortem hypostasis -->
postmortem livedo


A purple colouration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two hours after death, as a result of gravitational movement of blood within the vessels.

Synonym: postmortem hypostasis, postmortem lividity, postmortem suggillation.