- plural of extremity.
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
Another problem is atrophy of the lower extremities, including weakness in the arch muscle of the foot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025
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
Which is to say that she has always been curious about the extremities of human behavior.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024
A people pushed to the extremities that existed in the South could not possibly hold on, the papers claimed.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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