Hypothermia

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Hypothermia means:

  • Lowering of the core body temperature in warm-blooded animals leading to hypothermia (low temperature)
  • as local hypothermia the cold damage frostbite
  • the temporary, damage-free cooling of cold-sensitive plant species below 0 ° C, see frost hardy
  • Undercooling (thermodynamics) , in thermodynamics the lowering of the temperature of a liquid below freezing point without it solidifying