frostbite
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The claims, for which Homeland Security spent $96 million, show detainees were treated for a wide variety of conditions, including strokes, pregnancy, suicide attempts and frostbite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Chmielewski, who was also admitted to hospital with frostbite, further suggests that decisions were made haphazardly during the expedition, and that the company appeared unprepared.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
His wife had even begun to offer last rite prayers for his soul, she told AFP at the hospital in the capital Kathmandu, where he is recovering from "some frostbite" but is conscious.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
They were outdoors working from dawn to dusk, and many ended up with frostbite on their hands and feet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
My mother says I’m lucky I don’t have severe frostbite.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
"We are managing his frostbites, cold injuries, hydration and trauma. He is being further evaluated and will be in our ICU."
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Second-and third-degree frostbites are treated like burns; sometimes victims are hospitalized.
From Time Magazine Archive
The living wildlings Jon sent off to have their wounds and frostbites tended.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
We slept hour after hour, ate a little, tended our frostbites, inflammations, and bruises, mindspoke, slept again.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
As the merry party started out he warned them to keep their furs well around them or severe frostbites would be theirs, in spite of the vigorous exercise of rapid skating.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by J. E. Laughlin
In other words, “North Country” seems to be a waxing philosophical in the “True Detective” tradition, but the end-of-the-earth environs inspire thoughts that are tied more to Indigenous myths and frostbit hallucinations.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
“The Cro-Magnon” look, he calls it — wide forehead, frostbit eyes, a chin so square it must make mathematicians swoon.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2018
His frostbit ears are still sensitive today, 50 years later.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2017
“I didn’t bite you once! You can keep your underdrawers. Gawdalmighty, them pants is wet, ain’t they? You ain’t frostbit, are you?”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
Next morning the ends of my toes were so frostbit by the extreme cold of the country, that I could no longer go barefooted.
It appears that frostbiting has not changed much in 340 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the roaring fire set, frostbiting would seem a study in self-torture.
From Time Magazine Archive
"There are lots of fancy ideas about the motivation for starting frostbiting," says Knapp.
From Time Magazine Archive
We started facing a very keen, frostbiting wind.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott
Here on these frostbitten plains, the adults are tired and the children are stoic little beings who crunch around in the snow with the same hassles as everyone else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
“When you get down to people who get really frostbitten and really at risk of losing digits, it’s pretty uncommon,” Dr. Stockbridge said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
One particular tale from “Chinese Menu” tells of how dumplings once apparently cured a village’s frostbitten ears.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2024
Despite McNish building a new boat on the pack ice with frostbitten hands, he was denied the Polar Medal because he had fallen out with Shackleton.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2023
Greenstreet and Macklin also took off their boots and found their feet frostbitten, but they rubbed their toes until they felt the searing pain of blood flowing through their veins.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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