immobilization
IPA: ɪmˈoʊbʌɫʌzˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act or process of preventing a thing from moving.
- (soil science) The process in which organic soil matter is decomposed and absorbed by microorganisms, and thus not available to plants.
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Examples of "immobilization" in Sentences
- Title: Effects of limb immobilization on brain plasticity
- This humiliating immobilization reduces humans to the status of monsters.
- A splint is a medical device for the immobilization of limbs or of the spine.
- (Sodium hydrogencarbonate drinking ampoule or two table-spoonfuls of bicarbonate of soda in 1 l water.) - Only then treatment of secondary wounds, such as immobilization of fractures etc..
- A promised "immobilization" facility that would have taken plutonium that is not fit to be processed and stored it in canisters until it could be moved has been dropped from the Bush budget.
- The presence of ZVI and other amendments unique to EHC-M ™ formulations will yield rapid, irreversible, long-term immobilization of heavy metals - while simultaneously dechlorinating organic compounds.
- Peter Brothers, a wildlife vet and South African tour guide, runs several trips a year that allow guests to get up-close and personal with lions, rhinos and elephants during what he dubs the "immobilization" safari.
- The first-aid guidelines (which were last revised in 2005 and will appear in the AHA's journal Circulation) reaffirm that applying vinegar is the best way to treat jellyfish stings; they also call for "applying a pressure immobilization bandage to any venomous snake bite, with pressure being applied around the entire length of the bitten extremity."
- My veins, wizened from chemo, are the bane of phlebotomists across the country who poke at me with frustrated abandon; immobilization made sleep impossible, even if they hadn't woken me at regular intervals to measure what are peppily termed "your vitals;" at least the scar on my head was ready -- they could go in through the same incision as seven years before.