- plural of extremity.
extremities
Example Sentences
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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
Which is to say that she has always been curious about the extremities of human behavior.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024
These complications include carotid artery calcification, calcification of the abdominal aorta and peripheral vessels in the lower extremities, and small vessel disease in the feet.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024
The sugar broke Ma’s lower extremities, which is how doctors say legs.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
