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the cold talking your body into undressing before it finally lets you sleep
means a dangerous drop in core body temperature, when the body loses heat faster than it can make it and starts shutting down
from From Greek: hypo- meaning "under, below" plus therme, "heat" — the same therme that warms thermal, thermometer, and thermos. Literally "under-heat," a clinical compound assembled in the medical Greek tradition of the 19th century, when doctors built new disease names by bolting old Greek roots together.
- paradoxical undressing
- victims often strip, feeling sudden phantom warmth
- survival window
- people revived after hours of cardiac arrest
- medical motto
- not dead until warm and dead
- terminal burrowing
- dying victims crawl into small enclosed spaces
- core threshold
- begins below ninety-five degrees Fahrenheit
wim hof — dutch athlete who survived 1 hour 53 minutes in ice water by training his nervous system
titanic sinking 1912 — 1,500+ passengers died from hypothermia in the north atlantic in 15 minutes
ernest shackleton expedition — endurance crew survived 2+ years in antarctica, 1914-1917, with extreme cold exposure