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Synonyms for immobility

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for immobility

the quality of not moving

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Tail suspension test (TST): Tail suspension test which was previously described by (Chatterjee et al., 2012; Aslam, 2016) was followed for measuring immobility time with little modification.
It also decreased significantly duration of immobility time of mice in force swimming and tail suspension tests.
She considers what the experience of being stuck does to the lives of migrants in Morocco, looking at why and when they become immobilized during their migration trajectory, the individual and structural factors involved, how migrants experience this state, how immobility impacts their participation in and identification with community networks in Morocco, how immobility influences their actions and perspectives on the present and future, how forced immobility impacts their views of time, and how these experiences are gendered.
The present investigations also included a tonic immobility test, whose results can be an indicator of the level of fearfulness, as suggested by various researchers [8,21].
The research is part of a long-term effort to understand the factors that contribute to the loss of muscle mass -- in particular as a result of immobility.
Zarate emphasized that the treatment using the HAL model should 'not only [be] for the rich, [but] for all patients afflicted with immobility, secondary to an illness, stroke, spinal cord injuries.'
WHAT IS LEGAL IMMOBILITY THEORY AND WHY DO WE NEED IT?
The animal is observed for 6 min and the period of immobility recorded.
Immobility also occurs during hospitalizations and when casts are used for orthopedic fractures.
Markazi will cast light on the conditions of mobility and immobility in Yemen and the Horn of Africa through its focus on households and everyday life in the Markazi camp.
In these tests, the immobility of animals has been interpreted as an expression of behavioural despair and is reversed by the acute administration of almost all the available antidepressant drugs [8].
Hesperidin at 1mg/kg or lower doses significantly reduced immobility time in forced swim test in mice [13].