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  • adjective Not able to walk around (e.g. plants).

Etymologies

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non- +‎ ambulatory

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Examples

  • GREINER: We estimate that if all nonambulatory pigs were -- were banned, all fatigued pigs were banned from the food supply, we would approximately lose 41 million pounds of safe pork going into the food supply.

    CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2009 2009

  • Anyone who has attempted to shower an nonambulatory adult knows just how difficult it can be, just how heavy even a relatively light adult can get.

    The Ashley Treatment: A Feminist and Disability Rights Issue? 2007

  • DEHAVEN: And, secondly, another important part of our testing strategy is to focus on those animals that, first and foremost, are showing some kind of nervous system disorder or those animals that are nonambulatory, those animals that are having difficulty standing, as we know that those are the high-risk population.

    CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2003 2003

  • It requires slaughterhouses to immediately kill nonambulatory animals.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • For years Malachi was also nonverbal and nonambulatory.

    NYT > Home Page By JOHN OTIS 2011

  • "When an animal becomes nonambulatory, it is readily apparent," she said.

    NYT > Home Page By ADAM LIPTAK 2011

  • In California, those "nonambulatory" pigs, as they are called in legalese, are immediately euthanized and prevented from entering the food supply.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • The California law would have had its greatest effect on the handling of nonambulatory pigs, which under U.S. law can be used for food with the approval of a federal inspector.

    The Seattle Times 2012

  • "But then you have to, you know, ask yourself the question: Are nonambulatory swine so easily excludable as horses?" she said.

    NYT > Home Page By ADAM LIPTAK 2011

  • The SPS did not include participants who were immunocompromised, had significant cognitive impairment, were nonambulatory, or had limited life expectancy.

    Annals of Internal Medicine current issue Nace 2010

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