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hypothermia
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  • Dying of hypothermia couldn't be any worse than the slow kill Diana Leven and the DA's office had in store for him in court.†   (source)
  • Kept me going until the blizzard came in for two solid days, trapping me in this waist-high drift so I could die of hypothermia under a gloriously blue sky.†   (source)
  • Half my men got frostbite, the other half suffered from hypothermia, and by the time we finished, my squad was reduced to just three or four men, all of whom ended up in the infirmary once we got back to base.†   (source)
  • It was the hypothermia that got Daddy.†   (source)
  • But more extreme cases can lead to shock and hypothermia.†   (source)
  • With a little rain and a bit of wind, you can die of hypothermia on the Fourth of July.†   (source)
  • The hypothermia kit came with a very basic corrective, but only one, and only suitable for first aid.†   (source)
  • Stage One is mild to strong shivering with numbness in the hands—most people have experienced this level of hypothermia.†   (source)
  • He was delirious and hypothermic.†   (source)
  • I've read about worse hypothermia cases in the literature, but this is by far the worst I've ever seen.†   (source)
  • had drowned, but this did not discourage the others); the old woman of a hundred and five who had declared she would live until Mr Galsworthy finished The Forsyte Saga, and who had died less than an hour after having the final page of the final volume read to her; the young mountain climber hospitalized with a supposedly fatal case of hypothermia whose friends had read The Lord of the Rings to him nonstop, around the clock, until he came out of his coma; hundred s of other such incidents.†   (source)
  • They were kept there for twenty minutes, very carefully timed, I now know, to make sure no one developed hypothermia.†   (source)
  • After hypothermic arrest it took 20 minutes to separate all of the vascular tissue, which meant we had used at least three times as much time as we had planned.†   (source)
  • We've got wood, we've got a fireplace, we're hypothermic.†   (source)
  • The one my mother got me had pink hearts on it, was made of flannel, and would keep me alive for about five seconds in subzero temperatures before I died of hypothermia.†   (source)
  • She had severe hypothermia.†   (source)
  • Prolonged hypothermia, exhaustion, and shock took their toll, and she felt her knees give.†   (source)
  • I hate it," he says, pulling me to my feet "Not really caring what you hate right now," I say, trying to force some venom into my voice, but it's hard when I'm fighting what I am quite certain are the early stages of hypothermia.†   (source)
  • After that, I'd eat a box of Popsicles, and then I'd call a limo to take me to the megaplex and I would watch movie after movie in air-conditioning so cold I'd need to buy a sweatshirt to prevent hypothermia.†   (source)
  • The Horvath had better kill him quick or hypothermia was going to do the job for them.†   (source)
  • I'd rather not get hypothermia.†   (source)
  • They both looked at Percy, who was shaking like he had hypothermia.   (source)
    hypothermia = dangerously low body temperature
  • Hypothermia, not drowning.   (source)
    hypothermia = body temperature that is dangerously low
  • induced hypothermia during the heart surgery
  • Vincent Phillips and Steven Lane died of hypothermia.†   (source)
  • What if you had gone into hypothermic shock?†   (source)
  • This situation forced us to go into hypothermic arrest prematurely.†   (source)
  • , the very limit of the time when guys start to suffer from hypothermia.†   (source)
  • The gross symptoms would have been masked by the overlying hypothermia.†   (source)
  • "I'll rent a sledge," I said, "and buy a hypothermia kit."†   (source)
  • The instructors took us to the early stages of hypothermia.†   (source)
  • The problem is, with hypothermia so many things go wrong at once.†   (source)
  • Also two hypothermia kits and two general-purpose correctives, if such a thing is available.†   (source)
  • We have the hypothermia pretty much under control now.†   (source)
  • When we finished, we all had Stage Two hypothermia.†   (source)
  • "We should keep moving or we'll get hypothermia," Annabeth said.†   (source)
  • Dawson was shivering from hypothermia, and he was dazed.†   (source)
  • Both of them became almost hypothermic as the storm rolled through.†   (source)
  • He was so hypothermic he could barely talk.†   (source)
  • She was barefoot and suffering from severe hypothermia.†   (source)
  • I was hypothermic, delirious, and shivering uncontrollably.†   (source)
  • Without it I could feel myself becoming really cold and hypothermic, " he says.†   (source)
  • You've got hypothermia," Jason said.†   (source)
  • Not even that it was so cold out but fifty-three-degree water is enough to send you into hypothermia if you're out there long enough, which unfortunately we were, and I mean to say Daddy, he was soaring, off in the stratosphere —" Our chummy college-girl waitress was approaching behind Platt's back, about to ask if we wanted another round —I caught her eye, shook my head slightly, warning her away.†   (source)
  • Somebody give me hypothermia.†   (source)
  • This deep degree of hypothermia brings metabolic functions to a near halt, and allowed us to stop the heart and blood flow for approximately an hour without causing brain damage.†   (source)
  • Now stupid hypothermia.†   (source)
  • "The kind of place," I said, still safely in linguistic territory that needed no gender marking, "that will rent me a sledge and sell me a hypothermia kit.†   (source)
  • I towed the sledge around front, loaded Seivarden onto it, and considered taking my outer coat off and laying it on her, but in the end I decided it wouldn't be that much of an improvement over the hypothermia wrap alone.†   (source)
  • Hypothermia.†   (source)
  • I'd have to say the odds are in his favor now, but these hypothermia cases have a way of souring on you in a hurry.†   (source)
  • Jameson reminded himself that in extreme hypothermia cases the unexpected can take a month or more to appear.†   (source)
  • The hypothermia kit first.†   (source)
  • We would instantly become more vulnerable to HAPE, HACE, hypothermia, impaired judgment, and frostbite.†   (source)
  • Boukreev's susceptibility to the cold was doubtless greatly exacerbated by the fact that he wasn't using supplemental oxygen; in the absence of gas he simply couldn't stop to wait for slow clients on the summit ridge without courting frostbite and hypothermia.†   (source)
  • But it soon be came apparent that in the so-called Death Zone above 25,000 feet, without supplemental oxygen the body is vastly more vulnerable to HAPE and HACE, hypothermia, frostbite, and a host of other mortal perils.†   (source)
  • For the next two hours, Beidleman, Groom, the two Sherpas, and the seven clients staggered blindly around in the storm, growing ever more exhausted and hypothermic, hoping to blunder across the camp.†   (source)
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