Before Anesthesia. It is necessary to have an empty stomach before receiving general anesthesia. In most cases, patients are required to abstain from eating and drinking after midnight on the night before their scheduled surgery to reduce the chances of vomiting while under anesthesia. When a person is under general anesthesia, the body does not work normally.
Definition of AMPULLA OF LORENZINI. : any of the pores on the snouts of marine sharks and rays that contain receptors highly sensitive to weak electric fields.
Because of its subjectivity it is not a term that can be used in animal medicine. rigor complexes. formed when actin and myosin bond together strongly in the absence of ATP; occurs in rigor mortis. rigor mortis. the stiffening of a dead body accompanying depletion of adenosine triphosphate in the muscle fibers.igÂ·or morÂ·tis. Stiffening of the body, from 1-7 hours after death, due to hardening of the muscular tissues in consequence of the coagulation of the myosinogen and paramyosinogen. Synonym(s): postmortem rigidity.