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
After hiding in a woodland near Carmarthen for three days without food or water, McKenna was arrested at Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, as he awaited medical treatment for suspected frostbite.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
As Thrall went down, he found a Polish climber who was struggling after running out of supplementary oxygen and had suffered frostbite.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
He suffered frostbite on his right hand and foot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
So, weakened by their ordeal and suffering from frostbite, the rest of the crew began constructing a hut with the only materials available.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
"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
Many were suffering terribly from frostbites, the cavalry were altogether unable to act, so worn out and enfeebled were the horses.
From The Young Carthaginian A Story of The Times of Hannibal by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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.
"There are lots of fancy ideas about the motivation for starting frostbiting," says Knapp.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the roaring fire set, frostbiting would seem a study in self-torture.
From Time Magazine Archive
It appears that frostbiting has not changed much in 340 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
We started facing a very keen, frostbiting wind.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott
A minor misstep or bout of ill-preparation comes with dire consequences, from the slightest of ankle sprains to bygone absent frostbitten fingers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
One particular tale from “Chinese Menu” tells of how dumplings once apparently cured a village’s frostbitten ears.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2024
Inside, Mr. Coyner’s shoes were soaking wet, his feet so frostbitten he was hobbling with pain when he tried to stand up.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
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
Because Gau’s frostbitten feet had been thawed at Camp Two, he could no longer walk or even stand, so Breashears, Athans, and I agreed that the Taiwanese climber should be the one to go.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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