extremities
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Your core temperature continues to plummet because the chilled blood from your extremities returns to your heart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
It listed a number of "targeted disabilities": "Hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism".
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025
These complications include carotid artery calcification, calcification of the abdominal aorta and peripheral vessels in the lower extremities, and small vessel disease in the feet.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024
The body responds to feeling cold, he said, by tightening blood vessels to stanch blood flow to the extremities.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
“We’ve definitely found the snow part of the palace,” Jack said when they’d all regained feeling in their extremities.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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