frostbite

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

He continued to descend alone for what he estimated to be about 50-100m before he came across another member of their group, a "Polish climber with no oxygen, battling fairly severe frostbite".

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 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

I hope my feet don’t get frostbite in the snow while I’m waiting.

From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome

"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

They were out for a good time, and they had too much grit and courage to let such trifles as a few frostbites disturb their happiness.

From Algonquin Indian Tales by Egerton Ryerson Young

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.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

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

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

The teenager is wet, frostbitten and poorly dressed.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

Exposed skin could be frostbitten in a matter of minutes.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

The most important medical task that faced them was Blackborrow’s frostbitten toes.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong