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hypothermia Med.|haɪpəʊˈθɜːmɪə|
Also in anglicized form hypothermy |ˈhaɪpəʊθɜːmɪ| (rare).
[f. hypo- 4 + Gr. θέρµ-η heat + -ia1.]
The condition of having a body temperature substantially below the normal, either as a result of natural causes or artificially induced (e.g. for cardiac surgery).
1886in Syd. Soc. Lex. 1887A. M. Brown Contrib. Animal Alkaloids 143 Intoxication by animal alkaloids is accompanied by hypothermia. 1898W. S. L. Barlow Man. Gen. Path. x. 441 Emphysema and some other forms of pulmonary disease..are associated with a slight degree of hypothermia. 1903Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. XXX. 574 The same toxic agent which acts on the nervous system producing the condition of epilepsy may be the cause of the hypothermy in these cases. 1937Brit. Encycl. Med. Pract. III. 499 The reduction of the metabolic processes in cretinism is shown, as in myxoedema, by hypothermia. 1955Sci. News Let. 18 June 389/2 When patients are given ‘frozen sleep’, or hypothermia, for operations inside the heart, they can be quickly warmed to normal by diathermy. 1964Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 18 July 2 His problem probably had been ‘hypothermia’—low body temperature—quite common in cold weather in elderly people who do not keep themselves sufficiently warm. 1966New Statesman 11 Nov. 697/1 The experts concluded that ‘hypothermia is a serious though unspectacular condition with a very high mortality rate’.
So hypoˈthermic a. [cf. Gr. ὑπόθερµος somewhat hot], of or exhibiting hypothermia.
1898W. S. L. Barlow Man. Gen. Path. x. 440 A general sluggishness of nerve and of muscle in hypothermic persons and animals is always noticeable. 1948A. R. Moritz in W. A. D. Anderson Path. vi. 143 The severity of injury caused at any given temperature tends to be proportional to the duration of the hypo- or hyperthermic episode. 1961Lancet 2 Dec. 1216/2 The complete absence of residual signs of cerebral dysfunction was particularly noteworthy in one patient who remained hypothermic and unconscious for seven days. |