limpness

(noun)

Property of being limp.

Related Terms

  • convulsion
  • subunit vaccine

Examples of limpness in the following topics:

  • Deviance and Social Stigma

    • For example, Terry might be stigmatized because she has a limp.
    • Stigma attaches to Terry because of her limp, overpowering the ways in which Terry might be social normative–perhaps she is a white, Protestant, or a heterosexual female with a limp.
    • The limp marks Terry, despite her other traits.
  • Vaccine Safety

    • Most developed countries have switched to the inactivated polio vaccine and stopped using whole-cell pertussis (whooping cough) vaccines, which are made from killed bacteria and cause relatively high rates of arm swelling, febrile convulsions and periods of limpness or unresponsiveness.
  • Hypotonia and Hypertonia

    • Examination will reveal a decreased resistance to passive movement, and muscles may feel abnormally soft and limp on palpation (diminished deep tendon reflexes also may be noted).
  • Introduction to deviance

    • Other examples include white hip-hop acts like Eminem and Nu-Metal bands like Limp Bizkit that mimic lower or middle class people in order to use their socioeconomic credentials for profit, despite their true socioeconomic status.
  • Aegina

    • His muscles are contracted and limp, depending on which ones they are, and they seem to strain under the weight of the man as he dies.
  • Power

    • Assuming you can, do they look limp and stale, or do they deliver a punch?
  • Sculpture in the Greek Archaic Period

    • His muscles are contracted and limp, depending on which ones they are, and they seem to strain under the weight of the man as he dies.
  • The Julio-Claudian Emperors

    • He was afflicted with a limp and slight deafness, which caused his family to ostracize him and exclude him from public office until he shared the consulship with his nephew Caligula in 37 CE.
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