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hide-and-die syndrome

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hide-and-die syndrome (uncountable)

  1. An apparent self-protective behaviour in the final stages of hypothermia, during which the afflicted enters a small enclosed space.
    Synonym: terminal burrowing
    Coordinate term: paradoxical undressing
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