extremities
Hands and feet
Extremities are the parts farthest from the center—most often the hands and feet, or sometimes all four limbs.
Cold weather affects the extremities first as the body prioritizes warming vital organs.
The word also applies to extreme measures or conditions: driven to extremities by desperation.
In the singular, extremity can mean the farthest point or edge of something, or an extreme degree: the extremity of his grief.
Freezing of body tissue
- numbnessLoss of sensation
- hypothermiaDangerously low body temperature
- chilblainsCold-induced skin inflammation
- circulationMovement through a system
tingling · pallor · cyanosis · gangrene · freezing · shivering · discoloration · peripheral
Shape's outer edge length
- edgeBoundary or sharpness
- marginEdge of a page
- fringeOutermost edge or margin
- brinkCritical boundary point
verge · limit · confines · threshold · rim · terminus · outermost · tip
Remote settlements or bases
- frontiersOutermost bounds of territory
- outskirtsOuter parts of town
- hinterlandsRemote inland areas
- far-flungScattered over vast areas
outlying · outer limits · ends of the earth · backwaters · peripheries · margins · fringes
fingers
Appendages of the hand
digits · phalanges · thumb · pinky · hallux · palm · sole · heel · knuckles · nails
frostbite
Freezing of body tissue
- numbnessLoss of sensation
- hypothermiaDangerously low body temperature
- chilblainsCold-induced skin inflammation
circulation · tingling · pallor · cyanosis · gangrene · freezing · shivering · discoloration · peripheral · warming
perimeter
Shape's outer edge length
brink · verge · limit · confines · threshold · rim · terminus · outermost · tip · endpoint
outposts
Remote settlements or bases
- frontiersOutermost bounds of territory
- outskirtsOuter parts of town
- hinterlandsRemote inland areas
far-flung · outlying · outer limits · ends of the earth · backwaters · peripheries · margins · fringes
extremitiesmoderation
Avoidance of excess
middle ground · median · temperance · midpoint · moderations
- cold extremitiesLimbs lacking warmth
extreme, extremely, extremist, extremity, extremes, extremism, extremists, extremeness, extremisms