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
It listed a number of "targeted disabilities": "Hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism".
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025
Her agile lower extremities might lead you to believe that Foster is made of rubber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
Which is to say that she has always been curious about the extremities of human behavior.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024
In the throng of the winter terms at Devon we were at opposite extremities of the class, and to me there only came the disliked edge of Quackenbush’s reputation.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
