Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A making immobile; reduction to immobility.
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- noun The act or process of
preventing a thing from moving. - noun 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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- noun fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing
- noun the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
PRWeb 2009
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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.
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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.
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(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..
3. Immediate Measures after an Accident Caused by Electric Current Gerhard Klix 1991
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This humiliating immobilization reduces humans to the status of monsters.
Gregory Sholette: Artist Shows Supermax Prisons Supercruel Gregory Sholette 2010
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This humiliating immobilization reduces humans to the status of monsters.
Gregory Sholette: Artist Shows Supermax Prisons Supercruel Gregory Sholette 2010
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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."
First aid and CPR guidelines revisited Jennifer LaRue Huget 2010
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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.
Rabbi David Wolpe: Really, Again? Rabbi David Wolpe 2010
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Title: Effects of limb immobilization on brain plasticity
Slapping On a Skin Patch to Combat Hay Fever Jeremy Singer-Vine 2012
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This humiliating immobilization reduces humans to the status of monsters.
Gregory Sholette: Artist Shows Supermax Prisons Supercruel Gregory Sholette 2010
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