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extremities



NOUN
animate being's appendage
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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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

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 body responds to feeling cold, he said, by tightening blood vessels to stanch blood flow to the extremities.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2024

At this summer’s performance at the Teragram Ballroom, Sullivan’s two feet and tap board thrummed along with Goldings’ Hammond B3 organ and extremities.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2023

She walks hard across the glacier and her extremities freeze.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti



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