Brains and neurons are irreplaceable, but plants are immobile and often attacked, so they must be able to survive after part of them is eaten, or destroyed.
His results were smaller than Aristotle's calculations which encouraged the belief that the earth was a small and immobile object and that if the earth moved, we would surely feel the motion, and so it must be still.
For a few moments he lay immobile as the prospect of the hearing filled every tiny particle of his brain, then, unable to bear it, he leapt out of bed and put on his glasses.
From there, the sperm — although still immobile — leave the testes, by way of the epididymis, a long, tangled set of tubes behind the testes where they'll spend the next few weeks gaining their mobility.
Most restaurants in the US keep their oysters alive on ice up until the shocking process, which either kills the oyster or renders it completely immobile.
A rigid personality pattern, held tightly in a vice of shall we say extremely immobile, subconscious psychosis, is unable to find release through healthy channels, and cannot arise into the mobile world of creation.
Harry opened his eyes, saw his glasses lying by the heel of the headless statue that had been guarding him, but which now lay flat on its back, cracked and immobile.
When she pushes herself up, her pectoralis major is contracting, pulling its insertion point — which in this case is the top of her humerus — toward the immobile origin, which is her sternum.
Harry opened his eyes, saw his glasses lying at the heel of the headless statue that had been guarding him, but which now lay flat on its back, cracked and immobile.