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Extremity vs. Limb — What's the Difference?

Extremity vs. Limb — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Extremity and Limb

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Extremity

The outermost or farthest point or portion
At the extremity of the peninsula.

Limb

One of the larger branches of a tree.

Extremity

The greatest or utmost degree
The extremity of despair.

Limb

One of the jointed appendages of an animal, such as an arm, leg, wing, or flipper, used for locomotion or grasping.

Extremity

Grave danger, necessity, or distress
People in extremity.
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Limb

An extension or a projecting part, as of a building or mountain range.

Extremity

An extreme or severe measure
Had to resort to extremities in the crisis.

Limb

An extension or part distinguished from the main body or group
The conservative limb of the party.

Extremity

A bodily limb
She is in a wheelchair because of weakness of the lower extremities.

Limb

A member or representative of a group
Was arrested by a burly limb of the law.

Extremity

Extremities The hands and feet
Frostbite affects the extremities first.

Limb

(Archaic)An impish child.

Extremity

The most extreme or furthest point of something.

Limb

(Astronomy)The circumferential edge of the apparent disk of a celestial body.

Extremity

An extreme measure.

Limb

(Mathematics)The edge of a graduated arc or circle used in an instrument to measure angles.

Extremity

A hand or foot.
Guillain–Barré syndrome causes one to not be able to move one’s extremities.

Limb

(Botany)The expanded tip of a plant organ, such as a petal or corolla lobe.

Extremity

A wing]].

Limb

To remove the branches from.

Extremity

The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.
They sent fleets . . . to the extremities of Ethiopia.

Limb

A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).

Extremity

One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.

Limb

A branch of a tree.

Extremity

The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form.

Limb

(archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.

Extremity

The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity.
Divers evils and extremities that follow upon such a compulsion shall here be set in view.
Upon mere extremity he summoned this last Parliament.

Limb

An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

Extremity

An external body part that projects from the body;
It is important to keep the extremities warm

Limb

A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.

Extremity

An extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease)

Limb

(astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
The solar limb

Extremity

The greatest or utmost degree;
The extremity of despair

Limb

(on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.

Extremity

The outermost or farthest region or point

Limb

(botany) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.

Extremity

That part of a limb that is farthest from the torso

Limb

(transitive) To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).
They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.

Limb

(transitive) To supply with limbs.

Limb

A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

Limb

An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
A second Hector for his grim aspect,And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs.

Limb

A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.

Limb

An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

Limb

A border or edge, in certain special uses.

Limb

To supply with limbs.

Limb

To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.

Limb

One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper

Limb

Any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree

Limb

(astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet

Limb

Either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip;
The upper limb of the bow

Limb

The graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles;
The limb of the sextant

Limb

Any projection that is thought to resemble an arm;
The arm of the record player
An arm of the sea
A branch of the sewer

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