See Also: amylose(medicine)

immobile (iou) and amylose (medicine)


immobile (iou)



immobile adjective. ME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin immobilis, formed as IM-2 + mobilis Mobile adjective.]
Incapable of moving or being moved, immovable; motionless, stationary.
P. G. Wodehouse There was something..immobile about the boy's attitude..to suggest that nothing could shift him. A. S. Byatt The man watched him, expecting him to move again, but he sat, immobile.

amylose (medicine)


amylose


A linear polysaccharide formed from _ D glucopyranosyl units in _ 1,4 linkage. Found both in starch (starch amylose) and glycogen (glycogen amylose).