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EXTREMITY

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extremity substantiv

1. extremitate, capăt, margine.

2. plural (anat.) extremităţi, membre.

3. extremitate; mizerie, ananghie, strâmtoare;

to the last extremity la (ultima) extremitate, în cea mai mare nevoie.

4. (fig.) limită;

to drive smb. to extremity / extremities a) a aduce pe cineva la disperare; b) a face pe cineva să recurgă la măsuri extreme.

5. substantiv pl. măsuri excepţionale / extraordinare.

6. (şi last extremity) agonie, ultimele clipe.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

A disorder characterized by marked discomfort sensation in the upper or lower extremities.

(Pain in Extremity, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Why did you drive me to such extremities?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, it is exactly behind the house; begins at a little distance, and ascends for half a mile to the extremity of the grounds.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

As I heard it, the whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fibre was suspended; I could feel the blood trickling in my veins and tingling in the extremities of my limbs.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I felt the utmost sympathy for Mr. and Mrs. Micawber in this anxious extremity, and said as much to Mr. Micawber, who now returned: adding that I only wished I had money enough, to lend them the amount they needed.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Crawford, delighted to get her to speak at any rate, was determined to keep it up; and poor Fanny, who had hoped to silence him by such an extremity of reproof, found herself sadly mistaken, and that it was only a change from one object of curiosity and one set of words to another.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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