0 the state of someone or something that is not moving or not able to move: --
1 the fact that it is difficult for people to change their situation, such as doing different work, becoming part of a different social class, or moving to a different place: --
political/social/occupational immobility Occupational immobility can occur when the skills offered by unemployed workers are not transferable to the jobs available in the economy.
2 the fact that it is difficult to move or transport something from one place to another, or to use it for a different purpose: --
When osteoporotic fractures do occur, the patients are treated so as to improve healing and decrease pain and immobility.
Release of this lipid immobility was found to occur on membrane blebs and may indicate a possible role for a parasite cytoskeleton.
The final section of the book covers what are described as special problems - frailty, immobility, failure to thrive and elder mistreatment.
The problem is even greater if there is immobility or faecal incontinence or the patient is catheterized.
Some patients may be weak because of the combined effects of cachexia and immobility, without there being primary neuromuscular involvement.
The nature of this kind of immobility is dynamic and active.
At this stage there may also be lower limb oedema due to prolonged immobility.
Germans certainly are not discontents of democracy, there are also very real and legitimate concerns about globalisation and continuing institutional immobility.
