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hypothermia
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  • 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)
  • It was the hypothermia that got Daddy.†   (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)
  • They were kept there for twenty minutes, very carefully timed, I now know, to make sure no one developed hypothermia.†   (source)
  • With a little rain and a bit of wind, you can die of hypothermia on the Fourth of July.†   (source)
  • …drowned, but this did not discourage the others); the old woman of a hundred and five who had declared she would five 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)
  • He was delirious and hypothermic.†   (source)
  • But more extreme cases can lead to shock and hypothermia.†   (source)
  • This situation forced us to go into hypothermic arrest prematurely.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • "I've read about worse hypothermia cases in the literature, but this is by far the worst I've ever seen."†   (source)
  • When we finished, we all had Stage Two hypothermia.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The hypothermia kit first.†   (source)
  • She had severe hypothermia.†   (source)
  • Prolonged hypothermia, exhaustion, and shock took their toll, and she felt her knees give.†   (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)
  • I'd rather not get hypothermia."†   (source)
  • The Horvath had better kill him quick or hypothermia was going to do the job for them.†   (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
  • He was so hypothermic he could barely talk.†   (source)
  • What if you had gone into hypothermic shock?†   (source)
  • , the very limit of the time when guys start to suffer from hypothermia.†   (source)
  • I was hypothermic, delirious, and shivering uncontrollably.†   (source)
  • Without it I could feel myself becoming really cold and hypothermic, " he says.†   (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)
  • She was barefoot and suffering from severe hypothermia.†   (source)
  • The problem is, with hypothermia so many things go wrong at once.†   (source)
  • The instructors took us to the early stages of hypothermia.†   (source)
  • Also two hypothermia kits and two general-purpose correctives, if such a thing is available.†   (source)
  • Vincent Phillips and Steven Lane died of 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)
  • We have the hypothermia pretty much under control now.†   (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)
  • 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 —"†   (source)
  • Somebody give me 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 would instantly become more vulnerable to HAPE, HACE, hypothermia, impaired judgment, and frostbite.†   (source)
  • Now stupid hypothermia.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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'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)
  • 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)
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