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hypothermic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó) Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der. English hypo- English -thermic English hypothermic From hypo- + -thermic.

Meanings

1. Affected by hypothermia; having an abnormally low body temperature.
   • The survivors of the shipwreck quickly became hypothermic.
   • 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) 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, volume 31, number 11, →DOI, page 2:
   • He [Dean Karnazes] has been hypothermic and watched his fingers turn blue, and said he will not let that happen anymore. 2021 May 25, Matthew Futterman, “‘I Am So Freaked Out. I Can’t Even Get My Mind Around It.’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 May 2021:

Forms

Deriveds

hypothermically · nonhypothermic

Relateds

hypothermia

Translations (9)

ro hipotermic (affected by hypothermia) · ru гипотерми́ческий (affected by hypothermia) · de hypothermisch (affected by hypothermia) · zza hipotermik (affected by hypothermia) · es hipotérmico (affected by hypothermia) · fr hypothermique (affected by hypothermia) · fi alilämpöinen (affected by hypothermia) · tr hipotermik (affected by hypothermia) · ga hipiteirmeach (affected by hypothermia)