(n.) The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state.
Example Sentences:
(1) Global 'abnormality', hunching (rigid arching of back), hindlimb abduction, forepaw myoclonus, stereotyped lateral head movements, backing, and immobility occurred significantly only in drug-treated rats.
(2) The findings can be summarized as follows: (1) The effective concentration of SDS for termination of shark tonic immobility (an immediate and fast response) was close to its critical micellar concentration in sea water (70 microM).
(3) Chlordiazepoxide was without an effect on immobility or beta receptor binding when combined with forced swim.
(4) The main response characteristics are an immediate motor 'paralysis' (prolonged and generalized immobility), unresponsiveness, and abrupt and profound bradycardia.
(5) It is proposed that pinch-induced immobility is mediated by both dopaminergic and cholinergic systems.
(6) In contrast, the latter (opioid) reaction is associated with passive defense (immobility) and occurs in response to extended conspecific attack.
(7) It was concluded that immobility reflects a state of lowered mood in the rat which is selectively sensitive to antidepressant treatments.
(8) Silence and immobility: mutism and catatonia, this patient gives nothing to to hear, he gives to see.
(9) Tail suspension-induced immobility in rodents is specifically antagonized by antidepressants, and has been proposed as an animal model of depression.
(10) However, when the lesion was placed after the unconditioned test situation, retention of the burying was not affected, but the animals failed to show immobility behavior.
(11) The effects of implants of 17 beta-estradiol and cholesterol in four regions of the dorsal striatum were tested on the duration of the dorsal immobility response in gonadectomized male rats.
(12) licking, scratching, grooming, head and limb movements), a reaction termed immobility.
(13) Physical handicaps such as problems with chewing and swallowing, difficulties to cut food, immobility and mental restrictions are responsible for reduced food intake and malnutrition.
(14) Because of its gel-like consistency (water content of about 90%), there is some diffusional restricting of activity as indicated by the kinetic data of soluble and immoblized enzymes.
(15) Furthermore, although immobility was seen after p.o.
(16) Naloxone by itself, however, had no effect on tonic immobility, and only an exceptionally large dose of naloxone blocked the morphine potentiation.
(17) Because immobility followed the probe shock in all groups, this relative impairment was not due to differential motor activity.
(18) Patients with severe ankylosing spondylitis of long duration often have spinal osteoporosis secondary to ankylosis and immobility.
(19) The immobility of the second-order stimuli is evidenced by the striking inability of observers to report their direction of motion.
(20) Incontinence at onset is associated with measures of severity of stroke (and of immobility for fecal incontinence).
Standstill
Definition:
(n.) A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of these different direct and indirect actions, a sudden cessation of sinus node activity or sudden AV block may result in the diseased heart in a prolonged and even fatal cardiac standstill, especially if the tolerance to ischemia of other organs (notably the brain) is decreased.
(2) Sinus standstill, lasting 30 seconds, was observed in one patient.
(3) The tolerance of ischemia in normal and less perfused myocard during an ischemic and cardioplegic heart standstill was investigated.
(4) Koehler confirmed German media reports that the truck had apparently been slowed by an automatic braking system, bringing it to a standstill after 70 to 80 metres (230-260ft) and preventing worse carnage.
(5) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
(6) PGE2 infusion in cases with standstill not responding to oxytocin treatment: In 82 parturients (1.4%) a standstill occurred during labour after initially normal dilation of the cervix, and could not be overcome by administration of oxytocin.
(7) Their mechanism of action can therefore be explained by stating that, due to increased intercellular permeability, the asymmetry of the system is lost and absorption thus comes to a standstill.
(8) Last Monday, INM negotiated a standstill agreement with its bondholders which gave the company another six weeks to repay a €200m debt.
(9) The imaging time per layer was 10 seconds so that rapid imaging could be carried out at respiratory standstill.
(10) Several countries in the Balkans were having problems with democracy and the process of EU enlargement in the area was at a standstill.
(11) We considered that the atrial overload due to combined valvular disease for seventeen years had resulted in total and persistent atrial standstill.
(12) The extent of standstill was assessed by intra-atrial recording and stimulation.
(13) Data from the Thai Demographic and Health Survey, conducted in 1987, confirm evidence from earlier surveys that the decline in the duration of breastfeeding evident during the 1970s came largely to a standstill in the 1980s.
(14) This complex has been found to protect spermatozoa against loss of motility which leads to complete standstill when Tyrode solution alone is used after incubation for six hours under the conditions under which we conducted the experiment.
(15) Vedev said the economy could grind to a standstill or start shrinking in the fourth quarter of this year, potentially moving into the country’s first recession since 2009 early next year.
(16) Onlookers reported seeing the plane flying low before smashing into a field and coming to a standstill with its nose in the River Stour near the village of Throop.
(17) An asymptomatic patient with cardiomegaly caused by isolated right atrial standstill is reported.
(18) Higher doses of these drugs except dipyridamole caused atrial standstill.
(19) Istanbul came to a standstill on Sunday as an army of riot police and gendarmerie cordoned off streets and use teargas on protesters in the centre of the city while the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, staged a rally before hundreds of thousands of supporters at the waterfront.
(20) Really bad is when there's patients waiting in A&E for a bed but no flow out of A&E and it comes to a standstill.