EXTREMITY
\ɛkstɹˈɛmɪti], \ɛkstɹˈɛmɪti], \ɛ_k_s_t_ɹ_ˈɛ_m_ɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of EXTREMITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso
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the outermost or farthest region or point
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the greatest or utmost degree; "the extremity of despair"
By Princeton University
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that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso
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the outermost or farthest region or point
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the greatest or utmost degree; "the extremity of despair"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.
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One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.
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The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form.
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The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity.
By Oddity Software
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The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.
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One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.
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The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form.
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The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The utmost limit, point, or portion; the highest degree; greatest necessity, emergency, or distress.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The limbs; the head, feet, and hands.
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The utmost point, side, or verge; the utmost or highest degree; extreme or utmost distress, straits, or difficulties.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The outermost; the end or termination of a thing. The limbs, acroteria, have been no called,-as the upper and lower extremities. See Membrum. It has been, also, used to express the last moments of life; as when we say, a patient is in 'extremity,' (F.)
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. The utmost or most distant point or side, as of a place or country;—the outermost parts, as of an animal; — the highest state or condition; — the greatest degree of difficulty, danger, or distress;—the utmost rigour or violence;—the worst or most aggravated state;—exigency; urgency.
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