hypothermia

English

Alternative forms

• hypothermy (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-, “under”) +‎ θέρμη (thérmē, “heat”) + feminine suffix -ία.

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.

Derived terms

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
• 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

• Maori: 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
• West Frisian: hypotermia c
• Zazaki: hipotermi
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• hypothermia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• hemiatrophy

Interlingua

Noun

hypothermia (uncountable)

1. hypothermia