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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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Past surgical history included right carotid endarterectomy, coronary stent placement, and angioplasty of his left lower extremity.
This is achieved by applying sustained external pressure to the affected lower extremity.
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.
Look at a newborn baby's foot and you will observe a perfect little extremity, well formed with straight toes.
The largest rock, Big Black Carr, can be seen at the seaward extremity of St Abbs Bay, as you look out from the harbour mouth.

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