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Definition of Extremity

1. Noun. An external body part that projects from the body. "It is important to keep the extremities warm"

2. Noun. An extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease).

3. Noun. The greatest or utmost degree. "The extremity of despair"

4. Noun. The outermost or farthest region or point.

5. Noun. That part of a limb that is farthest from the torso.

Definition of Extremity

1. n. The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.

Definition of Extremity

1. Noun. The most extreme or furthest point of something. ¹

2. Noun. An extreme measure. ¹

3. Noun. A hand or foot. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Extremity

1. [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Extremity

1. A limb, an arm or leg (membrum), sometimes applied specifically to a hand or foot. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extremity

extremital extremitas extremitas acromialis claviculae extremitas anterior extremitas inferior extremitas inferior renis extremitas inferior testis extremitas posterior extremitas sternalis claviculae extremitas superior

extremitas superior renis extremitas superior testis extremitas tubaria ovarii extremitas uterina ovarii extremities extremitys extremization extremized extremogram extremophile

extremophiles extremophilic extremotolerant extremum extremums extricable extricate extricated extricates

Literary usage of Extremity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The superficial lymphatic vessels of the upper extremity commence on the fingers, ... LYMPHATICS OF THE LOWER extremity. The Lymphatic Glands of the Lower ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The Metacarpal Bones arc each developed by two centres : one for the shaft and one for the digital extremity for the four inner metacarpal bones; ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"Berger is a treatise upon amputation of the upper extremity and scapula, either at one operation, or in consecutive periods. ..."

4. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"Transition to new diameter and tangent 'at its extremity. An important section of the Book follows (I. 41-50), consisting of propositions leading up to what ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"This case is interesting, among other reasons, on account of the peculiar movement in the right upper extremity, which resembles in its behavior somewhat ..."

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... so that certain regions thus become specially sensitive and serve as tactile organs. The anterior pointed extremity of the body in the ..."

7. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"THE INFERIOR extremity. THE THIGH. ON the morning of the fourth day after the ... A faint sulcus at the proximal extremity of the anterior region is the ..."

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