mobility
the fact that it is difficult to move or transport something from one place to another, or to use it for a different purpose:
the immobility of much fixed capital equipment in factories

Examples of immobility

immobility
Their choices challenged ' the immobility of tradition ' as much as did the first alterations in the dress of young nobles three centuries previously.
Independence is a critical issue for many older adults as they age and face health-related challenges such as falls, sensory impairment, immobility, and isolation.
But having created the image, he does not give it animation; he locks it in immobility and leaves it behind.
Intervention included six standardized protocols for the management of six risk factors for delirium: cognitive impairment, sleep deprivation, immobility, visual impairment, hearing impairment, and dehydration.
The policy of constitutional immobility that evolved around 1743 was applied consistently across the remainder of his reign.
Neither the relative immobility of the architectural objects nor the lack of written comments, however, provide exhaustive reasons to explain this paradox.
Looked at superficially, almost total immobility seems to have been secured by the contending forces.
Germans certainly are not discontents of democracy, there are also very real and legitimate concerns about globalisation and continuing institutional immobility.
At this stage there may also be lower limb oedema due to prolonged immobility.
The nature of this kind of immobility is dynamic and active.
Some patients may be weak because of the combined effects of cachexia and immobility, without there being primary neuromuscular involvement.
The problem is even greater if there is immobility or faecal incontinence or the patient is catheterized.
The final section of the book covers what are described as special problems - frailty, immobility, failure to thrive and elder mistreatment.
Release of this lipid immobility was found to occur on membrane blebs and may indicate a possible role for a parasite cytoskeleton.
When osteoporotic fractures do occur, the patients are treated so as to improve healing and decrease pain and immobility.
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