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…soon the sharpened features, and sunken eye, and fallen jaw, pale and cold, bearing the manifest impress of death’s signet, began to glow with returning animation…. During the British cholera epidemic of 1831, William O’Shaughnessy reported that the blood of victims “has lost a large portion of its water…a great proportion of its neutral saline ingredients” and that “of the free alkali contained in healthy serum, not a particle is present in some cholera cases.”
Source: The New England Journal of Medicine
What does returning animation mean? Given the previous part has already said bearing the manifest impress of death’s signet, it seems like the idea of the unusual manifestation of being kicking and alive before the death of a person (I immediately associated it with a Chinese idiom huí guāng fǎn zhào, meaning ""Reflection of the light" is a metaphor for the sudden awakening or brief excitement of a person's consciousness when he is about to die, and also a metaphor for the superficial temporary prosperity of the old things before they perish."(Microsoft Bing Translation from Chinese).
What does it actually mean in English？
Source: The New England Journal of Medicine
What does returning animation mean? Given the previous part has already said bearing the manifest impress of death’s signet, it seems like the idea of the unusual manifestation of being kicking and alive before the death of a person (I immediately associated it with a Chinese idiom huí guāng fǎn zhào, meaning ""Reflection of the light" is a metaphor for the sudden awakening or brief excitement of a person's consciousness when he is about to die, and also a metaphor for the superficial temporary prosperity of the old things before they perish."(Microsoft Bing Translation from Chinese).
What does it actually mean in English？
