frostbite damage

Ice exposure harm

Frostbite damage is injury to body tissue caused by freezing, typically affecting extremities like fingers, toes, ears, and nose.

The term appears in medical contexts and survival situations: The climbers suffered severe frostbite damage after being stranded overnight.

In video games, frostbite damage is a combat mechanic where cold-based attacks harm characters or enemies.

Related

blackened · numbness · tingling · blisters · amputation · skin grafts · gangrene · cold · exposure · emergency shelter · extremities · fingers · toes · tissue · chilblains · icy · winter · mountaineering

Categories
Opposites
temperature causation

frostbite damagethermal burn

Heat-caused tissue injury

scald · fire damage · burn · sunburn · hot water burn

tissue state

frostbite damagetissue regeneration

Biological self-repair of damage

tissue repair

Family

frost, bite, frostbitten, frosts, frosted, frosting, frosty, bites, biting

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Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG