immobilisation

Other forms of immobilisation

plural

immobilisations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about immobilisation

What does immobilisation mean?

immobilisation means "fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in immobilisation?

immobilisation has 7 syllables: im-mo-bi-li-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for immobilisation?

Close synonyms include immobilization, immobilization, immobilizing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is immobilisation a common word?

immobilisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.