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immobilizing

[ US /ˌɪˈmoʊbəˌɫaɪzɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement
    the storm caused complete immobilization of the rescue team

How To Use immobilizing In A Sentence

  • Treatment involves protecting and immobilizing the foot.
  • The improvement obtained by manipulation is maintained by immobilizing the foot in a plaster cast for five to seven days.
  • A study in Neurology investigated how the brain facilitates that adjustment and found that immobilizing an arm with a cast or sling appears to slightly reorganize the brain's sensorimotor system, reflecting a transfer of motor skills to the opposite arm and hand. Slapping On a Skin Patch to Combat Hay Fever
  • He receives training in espionage, in combat, in all manner of spycraft, but when a mysterious “iron fog” begins immobilizing entire CITIES, the time for training is over … Hero History: Dynamo | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • Trial uses for the protecting effect of the lyophilized extract of the Maytenus licifolia tea against gastric ulcer on mice, which was induced by indometnacine or by the stress obtained when immobilizing mice at a low temperature were carried out. Chapter 12
  • Injuries to the lower spinal cord could cause paraplegia while injuries to the upper level could cause quadriplegia - completely immobilising a patient.
  • In Elizabethan masques, poets, composers, choreographers and scenic designers emulated or simulated the Golden Age, immobilising Time in terpsichorean elegance.
  • He soon developed a hugely powerful analgesic, etorphine, which became the standard means of immobilising large animals. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the local area surveillance technology involved is poleaxing cars, immobilising them and/or setting off their alarms.
  • If we are to circumvent the immobilizing effects of political fatalism and cynicism, the political imagination must find a basis for hope in the future.
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