collapsibility
- noun
- /kəˌlæp.səˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
- Specialized
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colapsabilidad
- In fact, airway collapsibility can guide treatment decisions.
- airway collapsibility
Examples
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The critical closing pressure (Pcrit) measures airway collapsibility, and it has been associated with the success or failure of UPPP.
Academic text (1999) -
It improves the tension of the genioglossus muscle and decreases its collapsibility during sleep, thus alleviating obstruction.
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The parodies must be extreme (must long for a time when separation was more extreme) to disprove what the performance proves: the collapsibility of difference.
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The engineers studied the collapsibility of the bridge to ensure it could withstand heavy loads.
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The doctor explained how the collapsibility of the airway could affect the patient's breathing during sleep.
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Researchers measured the collapsibility of various materials under stress to find the best options for construction.
How Collapsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
collapsibility = collapsible (transparent) = collapse + ible + ity
The noun is regularly formed from the adjective 'collapsible' with '-ity', and the adjective itself is transparently built from 'collapse' + '-ible'.
Etymology
Collapsibility comes from the word collapse, made from Latin parts com- 'together' and labi 'to fall', so it literally means 'able to fall in or together'. In engineering and materials talk, collapsibility describes how easily something will fall down or lose strength under pressure, which matches this original picture.