extremities

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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

At this summer’s performance at the Teragram Ballroom, Sullivan’s two feet and tap board thrummed along with Goldings’ Hammond B3 organ and extremities.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2023

This the touch discovers in sensible bodies, whose extremities come within our reach; and the eye takes both from bodies and colours, whose boundaries are within its view.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson