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body temperature that is dangerously low- She was found after three days and was suffering from dehydration and hypothermia.
hypothermia = body temperature that is dangerously low
- induced hypothermia during the heart surgery
- During the autopsy, they discovered the actual cause of death was hypothermia.Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
- Piper kept glancing back, worried, as if he were the one who'd almost died of hypothermia rather than she.Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
- They both looked at Percy, who was shaking like he had hypothermia.Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
- Add to that hypothermia and a broken leg and arm.Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear
- But I was getting hypothermic, too.Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- Hypothermia, not drowning.Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
- I listened to their talk of mileage, of the skinned knees and hypothermic swimming bouts.Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
- He was so hypothermic he could barely talk.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- He was delirious and hypothermic.Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
- It was the hypothermia that got Daddy.Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- "I've read about worse hypothermia cases in the literature, but this is by far the worst I've ever seen."Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
- But more extreme cases can lead to shock and hypothermia.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- His thin shirt has split at the seams and he gazes into some middle distance with hypothermic slackness.Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
- Preemptively, you conclude, as I would, that Rudy died that very same day, of hypothermia.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- 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.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
- With a little rain and a bit of wind, you can die of hypothermia on the Fourth of July.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- They were kept there for twenty minutes, very carefully timed, I now know, to make sure no one developed hypothermia.Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
- The Horvath had better kill him quick or hypothermia was going to do the job for them.John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
hypothermia = low body temperature
hypothermia = an illness caused by too low a body temperature
hypothermia = dangerously low body temperature
hypothermia = body temperature that is dangerously low
hypothermic = body temperature that is dangerously low
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