hypothermia

English

Alternative forms

• hypothermy (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-, “under”) +‎ θέρμη (thérmē, “heat”) +‎ -ία (-ía, “feminine suffix”) . By surface analysis, hypo- +‎ therm- +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhaɪpəʊˈθɜː(ɹ)mi.ə/, /ˌhaɪpəˈθɜː(ɹ)mi.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

hypothermia (countable and uncountable, plural hypothermias)

1. (pathology) Abnormally low body temperature; specifically, below 35 degrees Celsius for humans.

   Antonym: hyperthermia

   Hypothermia is the systemic cold injury.

   • 2015 January 7, Ashley Fantz, “Cold casualty: What to know about hypothermia”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The stages of hypothermia begin when the body is losing heat faster than it can produce it.

   • 2017 September 4, Charlotte von Horn, Hideo A. Baba, Patrik Hannaert, Thierry Hauet, Henri Leuvenink, Andreas Paul, Thomas Minor, “Controlled oxygenated rewarming up to normothermia for pretransplant reconditioning of liver grafts”, in Clinical Transportation‎^[2], volume 31, number 11, →DOI, page 2:

     So far, extracorporeal temperature rise during COR had been limited to 20°C, as perfusion solutions had been used that were specifically designed for organ protection at hypothermia and might become inappropriate perfusates at increasing temperatures.

Derived terms

• clinical hypothermia
• hypothermic
• primary hypothermia
• secondary hypothermia

Related terms

• frostbite

Descendants

• → Japanese: ハイポサーミア
• → Turkish: hipotermiya

Translations

low body temperature

• Abkhaz: агипотермиа (agipʼotʼermja)
• Afrikaans: hipotermie, verkluiming
• Albanian: hipotermia
• Amharic: ሃይፖሰርሚያ (hayposärmiya)
• Arabic: انخفاض حرارة الجسم
• Armenian: հիպոթերմիա (hy) (hipotʻermia)
• Azerbaijani: hipotermiya
• Belarusian: гіпатэрмі́я f (hipatermíja), пераахаладжэ́нне n (pjeraaxaladžénnje), пераахаладжэньне n (pjeraaxaladženʹnje) (Taraškievica spelling)
• Bengali: অবোষ্ণতা (obōśnota)
• Bulgarian: хипотермия (hipotermija)
• Catalan: hipotèrmia f
• Chinese: 失溫症 / 失温症, 失温症 (shīwēnzhèng), 體溫過低 / 体温过低, 体温过低 (tǐwēnguòdī)
• Czech: podchlazení n, hypotermie f
• Danish: hypotermi c
• Dutch: onderkoeling (nl) f, hypothermie (nl) f
• Esperanto: hipotermio
• Finnish: hypotermia (fi), vajaalämpöisyys, alilämpö
• French: hypothermie (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: hypotermia c

• Georgian: ჰიპოთერმია (hiṗotermia), სხეულის გადაცივება (sxeulis gadaciveba), ორგანიზმის გადაცივება (organizmis gadaciveba)
• German: Hypothermie (de) f, Untertemperatur f, Unterkühlung (de) f
• Greek: υποθερμία (el) f (ypothermía)
• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: हाईपोथर्मिया (hāīpotharmiyā)
• Hungarian: hipotermia (hu)
• Icelandic: ofkæling f
• Indonesian: hipotermia (id)
• Interlingua: hypothermia
• Inuktitut: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: hipiteirme f
• Italian: ipotermia (it) f
• Japanese: 低体温症 (ja) (teitaionshō) ハイポサーミア (haiposāmia)
• Karekare: hipotermiya f
• Korean: 저체온증(低體溫症) (ko) (jeoche'onjeung)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hîpotermî

• Latin: hypothermīa f
• Māori: hauaitu, hauhauaitu
• Nepali: हाइपोथर्मिया (hāipotharmiyā)
• Odia: ଅଳ୍ପତାପ (aḷpatāpa)
• Polish: hipotermia (pl), wychłodzenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: hipotermia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਹਾਈਪੋਥਰਮੀਆ (hāīpothramīā)
• Romanian: hipotermie (ro) f
• Russian: гипотерми́я (ru) f (gipotermíja), переохлажде́ние (ru) n (pereoxlaždénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: hipotermija (sh)
• Slovak: hypotermia
• Slovene: hipotermija, podhladitev f
• Spanish: hipotermia (es) f
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: hypotermi (sv) c
• Turkish: hipotermi (tr), hipotermiya
• Ukrainian: гіпотермі́я (hipotermíja), переохоло́дження n (pereoxolódžennja)
• Vietnamese: hạ thân nhiệt
• Zazaki: hipotermi
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• hypothermia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• hemiatrophy

Interlingua

Noun

hypothermia (uncountable)

1. hypothermia