2. Noun. The extent to which something is collapsible ¹
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Definition of Collapsibility
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collapsibility
Literary usage of Collapsibility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1848)
"thus dense and wanting in collapsibility ? We can suppose it may. if its interior
do not go on secreting pus, its walls becoming healthy, and if the sinus ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1914)
"Anastomosis remains patent on account of the non-collapsibility of the bony tube
and the hydrostatic pressure within the ureter. 3. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1894)
"... but in specimens which have been dried it is scarcely possible to make out
the exact form of the aperture, owing to the collapsibility of the delicate ..."
4. Reinforced Concrete by Albert Wells Buel, Charles Shattuck Hill (1904)
"In these molds collapsibility is secured by a longitudinal hinged joint in the
top lagging which allows the bottom edges to close together when the cross ..."
5. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh (1922)
"... a scanty one, is connected with this and explains the increased collapsibility
of the tissues. Of the causes producing albinism, the pressure conditions ..."
6. Transactions of the Annual Meeting of the American Laryngological Association by American Laryngological Association (1917)
"These sinuses, which account for the collapsibility of the tumor, do not seem to
contain blood, and are, ..."
7. On Some Diseases of Women Admitting of Surgical Treatment by Isaac Baker Brown (1856)
"... as well as on the collapsibility of the sac, and on the exclusion or admission
of air into its interior. The destruction of a sac with dense thick walls ..."
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