extremity
noun
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Maya Polton, Parents, 28 Mar. 2024
With each inhale, hemoglobin passes through the lungs, picking up oxygen molecules and distributing them to the rest of your body, including your heart, brain, and extremities.
—Lizzy Briskin, SELF, 26 Mar. 2024
Garrone tilts the story gradually toward inconvenience, discomfort, and deprivation, then sends it free-falling, with stomach-lurching intensity, into extremity and despair.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
In a recent unveiling at the International Stroke Conference, Dr. Teresa Kimberley and colleagues describe an approach to post-stroke regenerative medicine that pairs vagus nerve stimulation with upper extremity rehab.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
The duo founded Kleinert Kutz Hand Center more than 50 years ago and helped make Louisville to a global leader in hand and upper extremity care.
—Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 1 Feb. 2024
Mimicking the behavior of a healthy extremity has been shown to have a dramatic positive effect on body perception, vitality and depressive symptoms.
—Jothy Rosenberg, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
The 7-year-old girl and the teenage girl were both transported to Riley Hospital for Children after they were shot in their lower extremities.
—Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Feb. 2024
According to The Vascular Society, poor blood circulation can potentially harm the heart, kidneys, and brain, as well as make your extremities feel numb and/or tingly.
—Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2023
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14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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“Extremity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extremity. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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