If the muscles of cold-blooded animals are heated to a temperature of 40° C, the warmth-rigidity (Wärmestarre), a condition very similar to death-stiffness, is superinduced. The cause of the death-stiffness and warmth-stiffness, is in the fact that certain fluid ingredients …

a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold

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