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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or being mineral deposits formed at great depths and high temperatures.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as hypothermic.

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Examples

  • Palaeosols and palaeoenvironments during the late pleistocene hypothermal in northern Natal.

    Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests 2008

  • I am 86 and retired with no affiliations with the dog food industry, but I realize that tampering with their well sealed (Boy, are the 20 pound bags hard to open!) - bags (like years ago with OTC medicines) with a hypothermal syringe could be a possibility.

    unknown title 2009

  • I am 86 and retired with no affiliations with the dog food industry, but I realize that tampering with their well sealed (Boy, are the 20 pound bags hard to open!) - bags (like years ago with OTC medicines) with a hypothermal syringe could be a possibility.

    unknown title 2009

  • As temperatures plunged they did not know what to do and gradually sank into a hypothermal coma.

    GREENIE WATCH 2009

  • Pretending not to notice the sudden drop in husbandly temperature, the fidelity with which his tone mimicked the death grunt of a hypothermal polar bear, Ellen Cherry kissed her mate's broad forehead, from which the hairs were retreating like farm boys fleeing the old homestead for the lights of the city, and said, "Thanks, hon.

    Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990

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