in extremis

1. 1.

   at the point of death

Questions about in extremis

What does in extremis mean?

in extremis means "at the point of death".

Is in extremis a common word?

in extremis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.