<prompt> Postmortem caloricity may be seen in all the following causes of death except:SepticemiaBarbiturates poisoningStrychnine poisoningTetanus  <response>: Ans. is b ie Barbiturates poisoning Ref: Reddy, 24e, p126; Parikh, 6e p3.9.Postmortem Caloricity is the condition, in which the temperature of the body remains raised for the first two hours or so after death.Conditions:-when the regulation of heat production has been severely disturbed before death.Sunstroke.Pontine hemorrhage.When there has been a great increase in heat production in muscles due to convulsions.Tetanus.Strychnine poisoningAcute bacterial or viral infections.Septicemia.Lobar pneumonia.Typhoid fever.Encephalitis and encephalomyelitis.Cholera etc. 