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- noun Plural form of
extremity .
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Examples
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Like stated above, keeping your core warm so blood circulates to your extremities is key.
Anyone have any preferences when it comes to staying warm out in the woods? 2009
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Like stated above, keeping your core warm so blood circulates to your extremities is key.
Anyone have any preferences when it comes to staying warm out in the woods? 2009
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I have found, when I experience Reynauds, that the only way to bring circulation back to the extremities is to bring up my core temperature.
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I'm cold again ... extremities chilled, shivering despite the fairly heavy long-sleeved shirt.
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The union of the extremities is made by eversion of the edges, which are united not by their surface of section, but by their endothelial surfaces.
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The effect of stimulation upon the extremities, e.g. the upper extremities, is also very easily demonstrated.
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Those are both good signs in terms of actually being able to make noise, verbalize a little bit maybe, also moving his extremities is a good sign as well.
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But the Barbarians placed at the extremities were the weakest, especially those on the left, who had exhausted their quivers, and the troop of velites, which had at last come up against them, was cutting them up greatly.
Salammbo 2003
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The extremities were the first to feel its absence.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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In the long bones, the extremities are the parts which form the articulations; they are generally somewhat enlarged; and consist of spongy cancellous tissue with a thin coating of compact substance.
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