Sentences with word «immobility»

On another hand, families with little children find it difficult to move about because of immobility of kids.

For more on the prevalence of tonic immobility during sexual assault, go to this site.

Police and soldiers, she adds, also experience tonic immobility in traumatic situations and similarly suffer from unnecessary guilt.

While disuse atrophy generally is caused by immobility, such as when a limb is in a cast, it is also known to develop if people stop performing their usual activities.

Travel by coach or aeroplane involves prolonged periods of immobility as the passenger sits in the same seat for hours, resulting in prolonged venous stasis, which increases the risk of DVT.

Even though we may be mute and speechless in confronting the terror of our time, we can not evade its pervasive presence, and to relapse into immobility and silence is to foreclose the possibility of being freed from its life - negating power.

«The polarization... won't solve the problems of social immobility, income inequality or help public education become the ladder of opportunity for more kids.»

The phenomenon of tonic immobility during an attack is not well known within the legal and judicial system, but people working with sexual assault survivors have long been aware of it, says James Hopper, a psychological trauma expert and teaching associate at Harvard Medical School.

Knee injuries can result in pain, swelling, and immobility from minor to severe in effect.

Dogs who develop long - term or chronic recumbency, either due to some form of neurological disorder, paralysis, or a period of forced immobility for healing purposes, will require specialized care.

Air travelers who are in a situation of prolonged immobility are particularly at risk, which is why it's also known as «Economy Class Syndrome» although first class passengers have just as much risk.

Whether it's the frustratingly unfulfilled promise of social media, or financially opaque ad placements, or agencies that substitute head count for experience, or awareness - building platforms that are disappearing like polar icecaps, or brands that are encrusted to the point of immobility with the bad decisions of a dozen previous custodians, a CMO's day often isn't nearly as much fun as it ought to be.

Intergenerational transmission of disadvantage: mobility or immobility across generations?

Immobility does wonders for ratcheting up the dread.

But this time of year also brings the need to give comfort to others, those less fortunate due to illness, loss of work or even the side effects of aging including immobility and depression.

Yellowtail had entered the first instinctual fear - response state, the condition of freezing known as attentive immobility.

Levels of pain will vary in intensity from discomfort to extreme pain and complete body immobility.

But he doesn't, and the most compelling moving part of «In Darkness» - which is, after all, a movie about immobility - is Socha's almost shocked discovery of his own decency.

It snowballs to create economic immobility, stranding people without the training necessary to earn well - paying jobs.»

That very immobility gives the movie a chance to slow down and concentrate on the relationship among these three young people, whom we've watched grow up as both actors and characters since the first Potter movie in 2001.

Immobility increases risks of deep vein phlebitis.

Twenty minutes of enforced immobility when you really want to walk, shift position, visit the bathroom, etc. is a lot different from just holding still for a minute.

Katy Morris, Neil Lee, and Thomas Kemeny write that residential immobility also matters.

This dog, who was being called Eclair at the shelter, was completely shut down emotionally, in a state of terror known in both human and animal behavior as «collapsing immobility.»

Specifically, pet owners have noticed significant reduction on their pet's shedding, less and less itching, shinier coat, remarkably diminished issues on joint immobility and heart - related difficulties.

There should be no sign of immobility due to short, coarse legs or splayed toes, and the tail should be long and flexible.

The artist's conceptual, aesthetic, and structural investigations of performance through immobility in her practice inverts the notion of the artist as the predominant actor.

This image appears threatening but may also suggest immobility and isolation.

After a minute or two of complete immobility he takes off at high speed pursued by his enemy.

Rats injected intraventricularly or directly into the periaqueductal gray with beta - endorphin (0.5 to 50 micrograms) exhibited rigid immobility accompanied by the loss of righting reflex; the period of rigidity was preceded or followed (depending upon dose) by a state of hyperactivity.

Type 2 theta is comparatively rare in unanesthetized rats: it may be seen briefly when an animal is preparing to make a movement but hasn't yet executed it, but has only been reported for extended periods in animals that are in a state of frozen immobility because of the nearby presence of a predator such as a cat or ferret (Sainsbury et al., 1987).

There is a problem due to the night immobility.

These changes in position to the torso, shoulders and arms create immobility in the upper body.

To match the current argument, the adventure club would be forced to allow a leader who does not believe in adventure and instead actively promotes immobility as the alternative.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.»

To proceed as Zeno is to admit that the race can be arbitrarily broken up like the space which has been covered; it is to believe that the passage is in reality applied to the trajectory; it is making movement and immobility [i.e., space] coincide and consequently confusing one with the other.

This does not commit us to the standard caricature of a «static» or «passive» deity, «frozen» in eternal immobility.

«27 It grew rather from an opposition to the church as a definite socio - political form which in the name of so - called religion defended the old social order with all its injustices, its cultural backwardness, and its conservative immobility.

Alcohol acts as a narcotic — first, in suppressing the higher mental functions and then, as larger doses are taken, in reducing a person to the animal level and finally to unconscious vegetative immobility.

The argument for the soul's essential immobility is found in the Phaedo.

Such religion defends the status quo at all costs, identifies faith in God with staunch conservatism, and associates «civilized» life with stony immobility in the face of revisionist efforts.

From time to time I find myself in this state of blank immobility.

While they're all stunned Ozil will be burning down the right into what would be an open goal due to Begovic's temporary immobility.

We were immobile in the middle and look what immobility and lack of intelligence has done to us.

A normal REM behavior is when their bodies are limped with sleep immobility and their brain is still solving information.