immobilizer
1
4.6
- noun
- /ɪˈmoʊbɪlaɪzər/
- Specialized
:
inmovilizador
- He had to use an immobilizer to keep his arm still while it healed from surgery.
- knee immobilizer
Examples
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After her injury, the doctor recommended that she wear a knee immobilizer to help her recover.
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The orthopedist stabilized my arm by trussing me for five weeks in a device called—with blunt literalism—a shoulder immobilizer.
Academic text (1998) -
After surgery, Matt will be in an immobilizer for six weeks, needing someone else to do almost everything for him.
Blog text (21) -
Most patients are placed in a simple knee immobilizer post-operatively to reduce knee pain and quadriceps spasm.
Academic text (2006) -
The immobilizer resembled an Amazonian tube top gone awry, a Jean Paul Gaultier bustier for sadomasochists with medically tinged fantasies.
Academic text (1998) -
The physical therapist advised wearing an immobilizer to prevent movement and aid in the healing process.
Synonyms
85
4.0
A set of metal or clear parts fixed to teeth to make them straight
1
8.6
A device that holds a broken bone or other parts firmly in place during healing
A band worn around the ankle to support and protect it after injury
Antonyms
How Immobilized
- Specialized
84
3.5
- Specialized
1
4.6
- Specialized
12
5.3
240
1.0
34
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
immobilizer = immobilize (transparent) = im + mobile + ize + er
Standard formation from the verb 'immobilize' to an instrument/agent noun with '-er'; the link is straightforward.
Etymology
Immobilizer comes from im- 'not' and mobile 'able to move', like in mobile and automobile. So a medical immobilizer is a splint or brace that keeps a limb still to help it heal.