extremities
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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
Another problem is atrophy of the lower extremities, including weakness in the arch muscle of the foot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025
Which is to say that she has always been curious about the extremities of human behavior.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024
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
