All 7 Uses
hypothermia
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Into Thin Air
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- 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.†
Chpt 11hypothermia = body temperature that is dangerously low
- He was so hypothermic he could barely talk.†
Chpt 12 *hypothermic = relating to body temperature that is dangerously low
- We would instantly become more vulnerable to HAPE, HACE, hypothermia, impaired judgment, and frostbite.†
Chpt 13hypothermia = body temperature that is dangerously low
- 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.†
Chpt 15hypothermic = relating to body temperature that is dangerously low
- 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.†
Chpt 15hypothermia = body temperature that is dangerously low
- Without it I could feel myself becoming really cold and hypothermic, " he says.†
Chpt 19hypothermic = relating to body temperature that is dangerously low
- I was hypothermic, delirious, and shivering uncontrollably.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(hypothermia) body temperature that is dangerously low
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)