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extremities



NOUN
animate being's appendage
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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Your core temperature continues to plummet because the chilled blood from your extremities returns to your heart.

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

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

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


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