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extremities



NOUN
animate being's appendage
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Antonyms
STRONG


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Also, your heart rate spikes, your blood pressure soars, the blood vessels in your extremities constrict to keep warm blood near your core and you begin to gasp involuntarily.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Temperature readings can also be wrong if patient's extremities are cold.

From BBC Dec. 11, 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

Its extremities were soggy wooden beams intertwined with metal shackles, the iron restraints lining its limbs like veins.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia



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