Cadaverise

During this man's imprisonment, he had adopted every available means of reducing himself; and as his name was called for trial, he was seen thumping his elbows violently against the walls of the dock, to effect a temporary suspension of the circulation, and cadaverise his countenance.

The medicine of the nineteenth century was haunted by that occult eye which cadaverises life.

Worms like words devitalise and cadaverise the body turning it into cheese-flesh.