immobilization

English

Alternative forms

• immobilisation

Etymology

FromFrenchimmobilisationorim-+‎mobilizationorimmobilize+‎-ation.

Noun

immobilization(countableanduncountable,pluralimmobilizations)

1. The act or process ofpreventinga thing from moving.

   The broken bones were able to heal, thanks to theimmobilizationof her leg in a cast.

   • 1954February 15, D. Keith Millett, Myron O. Henry, “Occult Ankle Dislocations”, inModern Medicine,volume22,number 4, Minneapolis, Minn.: Modern Medicine Publications, Inc.,page93:

     Treatment of an acute occult dislocation of the ankle consists ofimmobilizationin a snugly fitting plaster-of-paris cast, with little padding.

   • 2011June 21, Kay E. Holekamp, “Why Study Hyenas?”, inThe New York Times‎^[1]:

     We are also extracting DNA, both from blood collected duringimmobilizationsand from hyena feces.

2. (soil science)The process in which organic soil matter is decomposed and absorbed by microorganisms, and thus not available to plants.

Antonyms

• mobilization

Translations

the act or process of preventing a thing from moving

• Catalan:immobilitzacióf
• French:immobilisation(fr)f
• Galician:inmobilización(gl)f
• Italian:immobilizzazione(it)f
• Polish:unieruchomienie(pl)n,unieruchamianien
• Portuguese:imobilização(pt)f
• Serbo-Croatian:imobilizacija(sh)f
• Slovak:imobilizácia
• Spanish:inmovilizaciónf