(a.) Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.
(a.) Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn.
(a.) Incapable of change; unalterable; immutable.
Example Sentences:
(1) In current practice, some of the goals cannot be met; they should be considered as targets worthy of achievement, not as inflexible criteria of acceptance or rejection of methods.
(2) These words reflect a departure from Ankara's recent inflexibility, which led the country to freeze relations with Brussels during the Cypriot presidency of the EU in 2012.
(3) This results in patterns of inflexibility and weakness that can be demonstrated on a tennis-specific musculoskeletal exam, and that can be correlated with areas of increased injury occurrence.
(4) Perforation at the physiologically narrow sites of the esophagus is a wellknown mechanism as is the use of inflexible polyethylen tubes containing a mandrin.
(5) Postural instability was associated with abnormal patterns of postural responses including excessive antagonist activity and inflexibility in adapting to changing support conditions.
(6) It was only his inflexible determination, the quality that had made him a great general, that mastered the torments of ill-health – sleepless nights, fear of dying – to articulate his account for a devoted American audience.
(7) The day-to-day operation of the social security system (especially in universal credit) is crude, inflexible and too often oppressive .
(8) When we protect our old industries with subsidies and inflexible legislation, we risk losing all.
(9) Differences between groups were maintained across situations, and support the utility of conceptualizing personality disorders in terms of inflexible interpersonal styles.
(10) The inflexibility of the present system seems to be a major threat to the principle of regionalization.
(11) Wheras the guidelines may appear to be inflexible, they should not be considered as such.
(12) Traditional silicone prostheses have been found to be inflexible, heavy, and of poor color match when used on the limbs.
(13) When a mode of responding is adopted in noise, subjects are often rather inflexible and continue to use this strategy even though it is inappropriate.
(14) Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, said: "No individual newspaper editorial could hope to influence the outcome of Copenhagen but I hope the combined voice of 56 major papers speaking in 20 languages will remind the politicians and negotiators gathering there what is at stake and persuade them to rise above the rivalries and inflexibility that have stood in the way of a deal."
(15) Ipsa's guidelines on travel expenses suggest MPs should consider "value for money" and whether cheaper, inflexible tickets will end up costing more if travel arrangements change at short notice.
(16) We will make decisions based on real-world outcomes – not inflexible ideology,” Trump said.
(17) Seven dinucleoside monophosphates containing epsilonA (1,N6-ethenoadenosine) and 2'-O-methylcytidine were studied by 360-MHz proton magnetic resonance and compared with unmodified dimers and component monomers at 4, 20, 45, and 75 degrees C. These studies show that the dimers exhibit preference for the gg and g'g' conformations for the C-4'-C-5' and C-5'-O-5' bonds, respectively, and that dimerization induces an increase of the population and inflexibility of the 3'-endo conformations for the ribose ring.
(18) Because of its relative inflexibility, legislation cannot meet the challenge of the subtle and sensitive conflict of values under consideration, nor can it aid in the wise decision making by individuals which is required to assure optimum protection of subjects, together with the fullest effectiveness of research.
(19) It would be foolhardy to offer an inflexible step-care protocol for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, given its heterogeneity and our uncertainty about its pathogenesis.
(20) Now researchers have developed a soft, flexible robot prototype inspired by starfish, worms and squid that overcomes some of the limitations of inflexible robots like Robbie.
Ossify
Definition:
(v. t.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
(v. t.) Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart.
(v. i.) To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Marginal osteophytes developed from soft cellular tissue which later underwent chondrification and finally became ossified.
(2) The frequencies in the two groups are as follows: In the benign group, osteoma had the highest incidence and then, with decreasing frequencies: osteochondroma, chondroma, synovioma, giant cell tumor, ossifying fibroma, osteoid osteoma, chondromyxoid fibroma.
(3) Radiological findings can include a large, poorly ossified skull with decreased ossification in the sutural areas.
(4) By means of the presentation of several cases of Stylohyoid Complex partially or totally ossified, the authors emphasize in the necessity to have in mind this diagnosis in every patient with craniofacial pains, although it is in sometimes a casual radiological finding in a asymptomatic patient.
(5) Treatment was surgical resection of 1 cm of the ossified ligament.
(6) The foci of the red bone marrow, termed as the "marrow foci", were observed in the ossified portion of the cartilages.
(7) Measurements for radioulnar variance in adults cannot be used in children because the epiphyses are not fully ossified.
(8) The histologic diagnosis was sclerosing (ossifying) xanthoma.
(9) Ossifying renal tumor of infancy is a rare lesion, with only 2 cases reported in the literature.
(10) The computed tomographic findings in a case of cemento-ossifying fibroma involving the maxilla and maxillary sinus are presented.
(11) Four of them (4.9%) presented the classical hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) described by Bamberger and Pierre Marie, i.e., finger clubbing, ossifying periostitis of the long bones, joint pains and swelling.
(12) Observations of patients with plasma cell osteomyelitis and chronic destructive sympathetic arthritis indicate a special set of findings due to plasma cell osteomyelitis: metadiaphyseal ossifying periostitis, extreme demineralisation of the adjacent epiphysis with spotty focal sclerosis of the spongiosa and a chronic arthritis.
(13) Ossifying enthesitis is a common characteristics of "classic" spondylo-arthropathies which are all ossifying polyenthesites: ankylosing spondylarthritis, psoriasic rheumatism, rheumatism of enteropathies, Fiessinger-Leroy-Reiter syndrome and juvenile spondylo-arthropathies.
(14) The lesion was reoperated 3 years after the primary diagnosis with resection of the non-ossified tumour site and reconstruction with a vascularized fibular graft.
(15) Smears consisting primarily of spindle cells or fibrous tissue may lead to an erroneous diagnosis of a fibrohistiocytic neoplasm, fibrous dysplasia, fibrous cortical defect or ossifying fibroma.
(16) Spheroidal calcifications, however, were identified in ossifying fibroma only, but not in all of these.
(17) A case of peripheral ossifying fibroma is presented.
(18) They can appear in form of: hemorrhagic cyst (25), self-organizing hematoma (14) and ossifying hematoma (3 patients).
(19) The distinctive feature of the first case was the presence of ossified loose bodies surrounding the head of the condyle, whereas in the second there was clear evidence of arthrosis.
(20) To investigate the validity of balloon valvuloplasty, this procedure was carried out in the operating room under direct vision in 30 patients just prior to excision and replacement of the ossified aortic valve.