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 --
With four dogs they trekked southward, increasingly afflicted by frostbite, snow blindness and, eventually, scurvy.
Socks routinely froze to feet and had to be cut off to fight frostbite.
Because of its low temperature liquid nitrogen can be extremely damaging to body tissue, causing frostbite and cryogenic burning on contact.
Fifty-three deaths from cold or exposure were reported, and 799 persons were admitted to hospital suffering from frostbite, or from other maladies to which exposure had been a contributing factor.
Lorry drivers suffered from frostbite because the management would not give them gloves.
Is he also aware that, according to my information, soldiers in this regiment have suffered very heavy casualties owing to frostbite and pneumonia because of the non-arrival of winter clothing?
Thousands spent months, and many of them spent years, in open trenches; they lived in the open; and they suffered frostbite, trench-fever and illnesses of all descriptions.
One child had been pushed out into the cold so often that he suffered severe frostbite in his feet.
