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• According to some versions of string theory, the universe displays a fractal-like identity between its scale extremities (the astronomically large and subatomically small), indicating a liminocentric structure.From the entry liminocentric
• Your body will immediately transfer blood away from your extremities to keep your core warm.2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian. From the entry cold shock response
• Among them, South Rock is the highest, lying on the southeast extremity of the island.2021, Jinming Li, “Geographical overview of China's maritime boundaries in the South China Sea”, in Liao Jing, Fu Rongbao, transl.…. From the entry South Rock
• There were rare abrasions and contusions of the chest and upper extremities.2016 March, Amanda M McLemore et al., “Suicide by Bomb, with Decapitation”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry rare
• Adequate rest is incorporated into upper extremity training program so as not to flare the joint.2015, Theresa A. Chiaia, Miho J. Tanaka, Christopher S. Ahmad, “[Acromioclavicular Joint Injuries and Sternoclavicular Joint Injuries]…. From the entry flare
• The ceratohyoid is slender and it is thickened toward both the proximal and distal extremities.2015 August 6, “A New Late Miocene Odobenid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Hokkaido, Japan Suggests Rapid Diversification of Basal Miocene…. From the entry ceratohyoid
• His fingers slid from it as a powerful numbness began to creep over his extremities.2008, Charlotte Boyett-Compo, In the Arms of the Wind, page 144. From the entry tranq
• In sum, with the Sack, its formlessness is dangerous; with the Designer, its extremity is.2006, Nicholas Antongiavanni [pseudonym; Michael Anton], The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men's Style, New York: HarperCollins…. From the entry formlessness
• Nonlower extremity injuries range from saddle burns to nerve compression to lumbar muscle spasm.1987, Irving Yale, Jeffrey F Yale, Yale's podiatric medicine. From the entry nonlower
• The practical application of kineplastic surgery has been limited to the upper extremity.1971, Frederick Willard Preston, General Surgery: Introduction; General Principles - Volume 3, page 43. From the entry kineplastic
• Foul ground extends about ⅔ mile west-northwestward from Feng Hsü, the southwest extremity of Lieh Hsü.1959, Sailing Directions for the Coast of China, 6th edition, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 191. From the entry Lieh Hsü
• Torn between the two extremities of droughts and floods, the village welcomed the ice stupa as the savior.2023, Eklas Hossain, “Environmental Concerns Arising from Human Energy Consumption”, in The Sun, Energy, and Climate Change, Springer…. From the entry ice stupa
• “Plus-” and “doubleplus-” are both intensifiers that replace words of different extremities, and the words very and extremely respectively.2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet. From the entry intensifier
• Consequently skin temperatures drop toward the ends of the extremities.2014 July 29, Sandra Ückert, Cold Application in Training & Competition: The Influence of Temperature on Your Athletic Performance, Meyer…. From the entry acra
• “How can one be so fat and have cold feet?” he muses, contemplating his own stodgy and unwarmable extremities.2008 March 9, James Parker, “Ego Check”, in New York Times. From the entry unwarmable
• This feature is apparently above water at high tide (1.8m high), and situated at the southeastern extremity of the reef.2005, Zou Keyuan, “Dispute over the Scarborough Reef”, in Law of the Sea in East Asia: Issues and prospects, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry South Rock
• “Marking time” or walking in place with active hip flexion stimulates circulation and helps restore preprioception to the extremity.1982, Roderick H. Turner, Arnold D. Scheller, Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty, Grune & Stratton, page 389. From the entry preprioception
• Perry's labours were at the extremity of a long manor-way.1902, Essex Review, volume 11, page 93. From the entry manorway
• A ligament coming from each small callosity or from the apohyal is prolonged laterally and reaches the extremity of the styloid apophysis.2004, Herve Le Guyader, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: A Visionary Naturalist, page 162. From the entry styloid
• Oh, I'm penitent enough for the Seventh Heaven, but as to kneeling, observe, good friend, how the wicked have transfixed my extremities with nails!2001, Ambrose Bierce, David E. Schultz, S. T. Joshi, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, page 256. From the entry unspike
• Cape Mudge also marked the southern extremity of the Kwakiutl, the home of the Lekwiltok or, more commonly a century ago, the Yaculta.1984, Barry M. Gough, Gunboat Frontier: British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-1890, University of British Columbia…. From the entry Yaculta
• Job rests the left side of his head on a pillow formed by the extremity of his mattress rolled up in a witherwise spiral.1983, Charles Dennis Minahen, Hermeneutics of the Vortex-structure in Symbolist Aesthetics: Phenomenology of a Symbol as Symbol. From the entry witherwise
• Of all the bones in the upper extremity, the middle segment of the 5th digit is most variable and subject to brachymesophalangia, camptodactyly and clinodactyly.1970, Stanley Marion Garn, The earlier gain and the later loss of cortical bone, in nutritional perspective. From the entry brachymesophalangia
• Lüshun (Port Arthur) is a land locked harbor situated at the southern extremity of the Liaotung peninsula, about 20 miles southwest of Ta-lien.1946, Tsai-yu Hsiao, Epidemiology of the Diseases of Naval Importance in Manchuria, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, →OCLC, page iv. From the entry Ta-lien
• If a man adopts an exceptional measure in a state of absolute extremity, that does not make it a fundamental article of his faith.1917, Richard Cornthwaite Lambert, The Parliamentary History of Conscription in Great Britain, page 311. From the entry counsel of despair
• A right double pyramid is isosceles when the extremities of the vertex-edge are at the same distance from the plane of the base.1914, Henry Parker Manning, Geometry of Four Dimensions, page 204. From the entry isosceles
• This was his last resort, an expedient which he fell back upon only in great extremity, as it invariably made him sick to his stomach.1914, Frank Norris, chapter 17, in Vandover and the Brute. From the entry sick to one's stomach
• Pinioning its extremities with the edge of the towel, she crushed off its offensive and defensive weapons with a splinter from the wall.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry pinion
• Some manufacturers advocate the use of thighless legs whether the stumps are long or short, and pay little attention to the character of the extremities.1907, George Edwin Marks, Manual of Artificial Limbs. From the entry thighless
• The lower extremities demonstrated rare abrasions and contusions as well as severe lacerations of the anteromedial knees with underlying fractures of the distal aspects of the femora (Image 4).2016 March, Amanda M McLemore et al., “Suicide by Bomb, with Decapitation”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry rare
• In HIV-1 and foamy viruses, the polyadenylation signal (poly(A) signal) is found at both extremities of the viral progenome, in the redundant 5’ and 3’ long terminal repeats (LTRs).2015 July 11, “Cauliflower mosaic virus Transcriptome Reveals a Complex Alternative Splicing Pattern”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry progenome
• How much more in extremities of more importance, as the quenching of a scathe fire, or defending of a city, or country, by repelling the invading or beleaguering enemy?2014, Henry Burton, C. Matthew McMahon, Therese B. McMahon, The Law and the Gospel Reconciled. From the entry scathefire
• Inexperienced shooters will attempt to aim for the “kill zone” (the area of the chest and abdomen) and instead will hit the lower extremities, often the thigh.2008, Bruce D. Browner, Alan M. Levine, Jesse B. Jupiter, Skeletal Trauma E-Book, →ISBN, page 445. From the entry kill zone
• A lighthouse crowns a lofty cliff on the north-east extremity, and though of doubtful value as a sealight forms a good mark for entering Clew Bay.1993, J. F. Quinn, History of Mayo, volume 2, page 138. From the entry sealight
• There is no discernable tendency, however, for the differentiates to fall into two extremities, as would be expected if they were trending toward distinct eutectics in a residua system.1969, Alexander R. McBirney, Geology and Petrology of the Galápagos Islands, page 185. From the entry differentiate
• These measured at least thirty feet—thick as a man's thigh near the creature's body, fining down at their extremities like the tip of an elephant's trunk.1913, “The Deep-Sea Kraken”, in Alfred Holman, editor, The Argonaut, volume 72, page 302. From the entry devilfish
• The big water overraked her waist like a mighty river running over, and with the extremity of evil weather, she was like to be shaken asunder.1906, Sir Andrew Macphail, The Vine of Sibmah: A Relation of the Puritans, page 270. From the entry overrake
• Like arthritis, peripheral enthesitis occurs predominantly in the lower extremities, particularly in the foot, at single sites at onset, and then at several entheses throughout the course of the disease.2004, Erbil Ünsal, “Chapter II: Andersson Lesion in Early Juvenile Spondyloarthropathies”, in Frank Columbus, editor, Focus On Arthritis…. From the entry enthesis

Meaning of extremity

1. noun The most extreme or furthest point of something.
2. noun An extreme measure.
3. noun A hand or foot.

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Questions about extremity in a sentence

How do you use extremity in a sentence?

Extremity is used as a noun. For example: “Guillain–Barré syndrome causes one to not be able to move one’s extremities.”

What is a short sentence with extremity?

“Consequently skin temperatures drop toward the ends of the extremities.”

What does extremity mean?

Extremity means the most extreme or furthest point of something.