(a.) Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine.
(a.) Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year.
(n.) An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.
(n.) Property not attached to the soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one of them, who sustained a complete membranous disruption 5 weeks ago, transluminal puncture failed because of the movable proximal urethra.
(2) Between June and October 1987, a total of 8,573 people underwent a cholesterol screening held in a movable trailer.
(3) The solid-state laser has impressive technical advantages: it contains no argon-ion gas tube that wears out and is expensive to replace; it is much more power efficient, and thus considerably smaller and compact; it is sturdier and easily movable; it does not require external cooling; it uses a 220-V monophasic alternating current; and it requires little maintenance.
(4) A 59-year-old Japanese female presented a well-limited and movable thyroid nodule.
(5) After treatment with antibiotics, the broncholith became movable, and it was removed bronchoscopically.
(6) This system involves attachment of cells to silicon collagen coated membranes which are then subjected to continuous or cyclic stretching by a motor coupled to a movable supporting frame.
(7) The elongated basilar artery is very firm and not readily movable with manipulation.
(8) The same multiple-choice questionnaire was distributed to nurses at the University of Michigan Hospitals 18 months before decentralized services were implemented (November 1982) and again after two satellite pharmacies had been established and a clinical pharmacist had begun providing first-dose dispensing services using a movable medication cart (March 1985).
(9) Rats joined in surgical parabiosis for 25 to 30 days were tested by restraining one member of the pair on a movable cart while allowing the second member to remain free to move about.
(10) movable teeth, lesions in ears, lungs, hematopoietic system, and fever.
(11) The intramolecular movable subdomains have been localized and the role of motion in substrate binding and zymogen activation is discussed.
(12) While the awake, unrestrained cat maintained a stable standing posture facing forward, stimulation was applied systematically to various points in and around the caudate nucleus with a movable stimulating electrode.
(13) The computer program was tested in vitro against data obtained from an inert spherical conductor (a bowl containing physiological saline, fitted with recording electrodes and a movable dipole) and an anisotropic conductor (a similarly equipped human skill including a simulated scalp).
(14) The auditory receptive fields of neurons in the optic tectum were measured with free-field sounds presented from a movable loudspeaker.
(15) This was tested by implanting movable and stationary wires in the medullary canal of the rabbit femora or tibiae.
(16) 4) In the group with radiation therapy, the incidence at the "sites of the movable mucosa" was significantly higher than that at the "sites of the non-movable mucosa."
(17) No difference in survival was noted between patients with no clinical adenopathy vs those with clinically involved movable ipsilateral adenopathy.
(18) On average, PEMF-treated movable implants in the femur induced 44% more bone than untreated movable implants.
(19) The exchange guide wire techique can be applied safely and effectively to coronary angioplasty and provides an additional option in the successful completion of movable guide wire angioplasty procedures.
(20) Our study confirms the low rate of lymph spread of these carcinomas: over half of the patients were N0 before treatment; only 56.7% of the patients receiving surgical treatment on the neck had histologically positive lymph nodes; there were very few neck recurrences at follow-up; the presence of suspect or frankly metastatic nodes on clinical examination, being movable and homolateral (N1), did not worsen the prognosis.