hypothermic

English

Etymology

From hypo- +‎ -thermic.

Adjective

hypothermic (comparative more hypothermic, superlative most hypothermic)

  1. Affected by hypothermia; having an abnormally low body temperature.
    The survivors of the shipwreck quickly became hypothermic.
    • 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[1], volume 31, number 11, →DOI, page 2:
      It was found that brief hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion (HMP) prior to organ transplantation significantly improves organ integrity and leads to decreased numbers of cases of post-transplantation graft dys- and nonfunction.7,8
    • 2021 May 25, Matthew Futterman, “‘I Am So Freaked Out. I Can’t Even Get My Mind Around It.’”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 May 2021:
      He [Dean Karnazes] has been hypothermic and watched his fingers turn blue, and said he will not let that happen anymore.

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