immobilization

Examples of immobilized

immobilized

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In concert, these interactions may cause the foot of heavily infected cockles to be literally immobilized.
The stance leg is nearly immobilized at midtransfer while the trunk gesticulates significantly.
Often, when we are waiting in traffic, we are prisoners, immobilized, forced to stop and wait.
The bumblebees were immobilized with a soft plug in a tube with a coarse mesh on one end, through which the paint could be applied.
The insects were immobilized using ethyl acetate, and observed under the stereomicroscope to study pollen load.
At very low temperatures the radicals are immobilized.
Now that we had immobilized that, they were able to make their bodies more responsive.
Those with an immobilized shoulder were more incapacitated than those with damage to the wrist.
These binding sites are immobilized monoclonal antibodies reacting specifically with cortisol.
To determine the aerobic activity of the immobilized microorganisms the oxygen consumption is measured with an oxygen electrode.
Pascual et al.46 showed that total and immobilized urease and phosphatase persisted in soils for 360 days after compost application.
The shear assays were used to determine the strength of linkages formed between two different immobilized antibodies joined by a common antigen.
Clearly, the mobilized labourers were immobilized at the same time.
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