hypothermia

• hypothermy (obsolete, rare)

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-, “under”) +‎ θέρμη (thérmē, “heat”) +‎ -ία (-ía, “feminine suffix”) . By surface analysis, hypo- +‎ -therm +‎ -ia.

• IPA^(key): /ˌhaɪpəʊˈθɜː(ɹ)mi.ə/, /ˌhaɪpəˈθɜː(ɹ)mi.ə/

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hypothermia (countable and uncountable, plural hypothermias)

1. (pathology) Abnormally low body temperature; specifically, below 35 degrees Celsius for humans.

   Antonym: hyperthermia

   Hypothermia is the systemic cold injury.

   • 2015 January 7, Ashley Fantz, “Cold casualty: What to know about hypothermia”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The stages of hypothermia begin when the body is losing heat faster than it can produce it.

   • 2017 September 4, Charlotte von Horn, Hideo A. Baba, Patrik Hannaert, Thierry Hauet, Henri Leuvenink, Andreas Paul, Thomas Minor, “Controlled oxygenated rewarming up to normothermia for pretransplant reconditioning of liver grafts”, in Clinical Transportation‎^[2], volume 31, number 11, →DOI, page 2:

     So far, extracorporeal temperature rise during COR had been limited to 20°C, as perfusion solutions had been used that were specifically designed for organ protection at hypothermia and might become inappropriate perfusates at increasing temperatures.

• frostbite

• → Japanese: ハイポサーミア
• → Turkish: hipotermiya

• hypothermia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• hemiatrophy

hypothermia (uncountable)

1. hypothermia