Paradoxical-undressing Definition

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Removal of one's clothes while in a state of hypothermia.

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Origin of Paradoxical-undressing

  • Undressing during a state of hypothermia is paradoxical because clothes would be expected to decrease heat loss, which would increase the chances of survival.

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  • paradoxical (“self-contradictory”) + undressing (“removal of one's clothes”)

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