immobilization
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French immobilisation or im- + mobilization or immobilize + -ation.
Noun
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immobilization (countable and uncountable, plural immobilizations)
- The act or process of preventing a thing from moving.
- The broken bones were able to heal, thanks to the immobilization of her leg in a cast.
- 1954 February 15, D. Keith Millett, Myron O. Henry, “Occult Ankle Dislocations”, in Modern Medicine, volume 22, number 4, Minneapolis, Minn.: Modern Medicine Publications, Inc., page 93:
- Treatment of an acute occult dislocation of the ankle consists of immobilization in a snugly fitting plaster-of-paris cast, with little padding.
- 2011 June 21, Kay E. Holekamp, “Why Study Hyenas?”, in The New York Times[1]:
- We are also extracting DNA, both from blood collected during immobilizations and from hyena feces.
- (soil science) The process in which organic soil matter is decomposed and absorbed by microorganisms, and thus not available to plants.
Antonyms
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[edit]the act or process of preventing a thing from moving
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