0 injury to someone caused by severe cold, usually to their toes, fingers, ears, or nose, that causes permanent loss of tissue
1 injury to body tissues, esp. the fingers and toes, caused by freezing
His arrival at the ship after forty-eight hours absence, with no signs of frostbite or any other problem was a huge relief.
Frostbite and severe exposure were not uncommon.
They are threatened with frostbite, pneumonia and hypothermia.
I take the other case, that of frostbite.
Many of them suffered from frostbite, in addition to what befell them in attacks by the enemy.
Is it a point of time when men are exposed for weeks in an open boat, suffering from frostbite and incurring permanent physical disability?
I would compare those two evils to a burn and a frostbite.
One child had been pushed out into the cold so often that he suffered severe frostbite in his feet.