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extremities



NOUN
animate being's appendage
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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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

Which is to say that she has always been curious about the extremities of human behavior.

From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024

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

“Once the heart has ceased to beat, a man’s blood runs down into his extremities, where it thickens and congeals.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


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