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What does extremity mean?

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Noun
  1. The most extreme or furthest point of something. [from c. 1400]
  2. An extreme measure.
  3. A hand or foot. [from early 15th c.]
  4. A limb (“major appendage of a human or animal such as an arm, leg, or wing”). [from early 15th c.]
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In addition, a thorough sensorimotor examination of the upper extremity should be performed, and the neck and elbow should be evaluated.
A 74-year-old man presented to our hospital with unexplained deep vein thrombosis of the lower extremity.
That type of behaviour is part and parcel with the over-the-top extremity that is black metal.
The mission involved a patrol to the northern-most extremity of the Solomon archipelago, to a picturesque atoll called Ontong Java.
Are you a great gun yourself, that you so recoil, to the extremity of your breechings, at that discharge?
The maximal increase in girth of an extremity usually occurs during the first year.

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