immobility

How To Use immobility In A Sentence

• Medical writers of the era even discussed a fourth clinical condition, marked by immobility, which they termed ecstasy, but this was not a state that might lead to premature burial. The Serpent and the Rainbow
• Her eyes confronted the stone and her whole being froze in immobility. Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage
• It is probable that after passing several months or years in a state of immobility fakirs no longer experience any desire to change their position, and even did they so desire, it would be impossible owing to the atrophy of their muscles and the anchylosis of their joints. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884
• At the root of the hysterical fear of premature burial was the fact that physicians recognized, and patients suffered, a number of peculiar conditions characterized by immobility and insensibility, and known variously as trance, catalepsy, cataplexy, and suspended animation. The Serpent and the Rainbow
• Faced with this situation, Smithson felt that the task of the artist was to cultivate a thoroughgoing acedia: ‘The artist should be an actor who refuses to act’ and ‘Immobility and inertia are what many of the most gifted artists prefer.’
• All these things are based upon the idea that the child should grow in immobility, and upon the strange prejudice that, in order to execute any educational movement, we must maintain a special position of the body; – as we believe that we must assume a special position when we are about to pray. The Montessori Method
• Abnormalities of blood flow or venous stasis normally occur after prolonged immobility or confinement to bed.
• A life endured in total immobility is, though conceivable, wholly unsatisfactory.
• In the absence of immobility, mutism or stupor, at least two of the following that can be observed or elicited on two or more occasions: stereotypy, echophenomena, catalepsy, automatic obedience, posturing, Gegenhalten negativism, ambitendency The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
• Immobility for any reason contributes to the risk of pressure sore.