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 Translation for 'immobility' from English to French
NOUN   immobility | -
SYNO fixedness | immobility | stationariness
immobilisation {f} [résultat]immobility
méd.
impotence {f}
immobility [inability to move] [person]
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Usage Examples English
  • 5. Sep. 15, 2005 - A 0.1ppm solution of a synthetic shark repellent compound terminates tonic immobility in juvenile lemon sharks ("N. brevirostris").
  • But as van Nieuwerburgh and Laura Veldkamp (2005) point out, this seems to replace the assumption of capital immobility with the assumption of information immobility.
  • The explosion causes paralysis and Seafort's lower body confining him to a wheelchair. Resenting his immobility, the secretary-general becomes irritable and depressed.
  • For post-operative knee replacement patients, immobility is a factor precipitated by pain and other complications.
  • Tonic immobility occurs after the predator has detected and or made contact with the prey, and is likely used to prevent "further" attack by the predator or consumption of the prey.

  • In this case, the patient's history and the observed unilateral immobility rules out function aphonia.
  • Circumstances to avoid include extremes of body weight, bone fractures, and prolonged immobility.
  • Although in the early years they encountered engine problems, with a 12% drop since 1980, they remained the most reliable machines with the lowest degree of immobility.
  • Upon his return, he retired (1961). His last years were obscured by the disease which gradually froze him in immobility.
  • Pinch-induced behavioural inhibition (PIBI), also called dorsal immobility, transport immobility or clipnosis, is a partially inert state which results from a gentle squeeze of the skin behind the neck.

  • Amitifadine reduces the duration of immobility in the forced swim test in rats with an oral minimum effective dose (MED) of 5 mg/kg.
  • Fear of falling in itself can have an incapacitating effect in PD patients and can result in social seclusion leaving patients largely isolated leading to depression. Immobility can also lead to osteoporosis which in-turn facilitates future fracture development.
  • The FST is not as reliable as the TST because the immobility in the animal could be due to the shock of being dropped in water.
  • Catatonia is a medical condition characterized by immobility and unresponsiveness.
  • Women and girls with disabilities are a common focus in fetishism due to their immobility. This makes them especially vulnerable to sexual abuse.

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