cold extremities
Frigid hands, feet
Cold extremities refers to hands and feet that feel unusually cold, often due to poor circulation or cold temperatures.
The phrase appears frequently in medical contexts describing symptoms: The patient presented with cold extremities and pallor.
It can also describe the everyday experience of chronically cold fingers and toes: She wore thick socks because of her cold extremities.
- chillyModerately cold
- numbLacking physical sensation
- fingersAppendages of the hand
- toesPedal digits
- frostbiteFreezing of body tissue
circulation · blood flow · tingling · icy · pale · bloodflow · body heat · shivering · hypothermia · blue · pins and needles · frozen · clammy · peripheral · warming · hand warmers · mittens · warm socks
- anemia symptomsfatigue, weakness, pallor, pale skin, dizziness
- circulatory shockshock, hypotension, low blood pressure, septic shock, cardiac output
- dying signsdeath rattle, mottling, mottled skin, cyanosis, terminal lucidity
- cold injuriesfrostbite, frostnip, hypothermia, chilblains, trench foot
- heart conditionsheart failure, heart disease, heart attack, arrhythmia, cardiomyopathy
- heart responsesheart rate, pulse, slow heartbeat, palpitations, racing heart