EXTREMITY Copy link • EXTREMITY(= extreme danger, etc.), extrema, plur.; extrema fortuna; extremum discrimen, etc. To be reduced to extremity, extrema or extremam fortunam pati; in maximum periculum et extremum paene discrimen adductum esse (of things). The extremities of the body, partes membrorum extremae: the extremities are cold, frigidus extremas partes morbus urget (Cels.): of boughs, cacuminum digiti, qui longissime a toto corpore exeunt (Plin., but comparing it to a body).