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1. To liberate material stored in the body; more specifically, to move a substance from tissue stores into the bloodstream.
2. To excite quiescent material to physiologic activity.
[Fr. mobiliser, to liberate, make ready, fr. L. mobilis, movable]


v. mobi·lized, mobi·lizing, mobi·lizes
To release or make available, as cells or chemical substances: hormones that mobilize calcium from bones.

mo′bi·li·za′tion (-lĭ-zā′shən) n.


1. To incite to physiological action.
2. To render movable; to put in movement.
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Reduction of As(V) to As(III) under the anoxic condition over time may be also responsible for the above effect, because a higher proportion of labile fraction of As(V) commonly transforms into less mobilizable fractions, such as F6, in soils over time in comparison with As(III) [10].
To determine whether there is an increased mobilizable lead pool, the size of the chelatable pool in controls must first be measured.
Every mobilizable male had become a proto-combatant.
(12) Mae-Wan Ho proposed to interpret negentropy as stored mobilizable energy.
Therefore, the sampling of the first 20 cm of roots in our study allowed us to obtain a representative sample of root organic reserves mobilizable for alfalfa regrowth.
Where are the mobilizable political armies on the liberal team?
The luxCDABE operon of the terrestrial bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens is carried on the mobilizable, [Ap.sup.r] plasmid pUTminiTn5Kmlux.
From the discussion provided in the text, opportunity is accounted for by increased government vulnerability, less likelihood of official repression, and the presence of external allies able to facilitate intermediation with the government, all assuming there is an available number of mobilizable protesters with an appropriate cultural framing.
The findings challenge the assertion by some government elites that public support for privatization of SOEs is most mobilizable when citizens see bad economic times ahead for their nation (Zahariadis 1995).
Nonofficeholding actors, mainly in the business and voluntary sectors (and those that cut across the public/private divide), who have particular objectives they wish to pursue with regard to those same issue areas, whether as unorganized interests or as organized groups; and some combination of relevant mobilizable resources, including specialized knowledge, direct economic interest, elite network contacts, financial and other material resources, a popular or group base, ideological affinity, etc., which can enable them to influence government policy through their regularized interactions with (1) and (2).
Canadians have generally analysed social capital with respect to resources available and mobilizable in social networks.
maritime command is eminently temporary: world politics has been shaking down from the Cold War, is in an interwar period of uncertain duration, and no polity or coalition now existing has both the political incentive and the readily mobilizable base to challenge the U.S.

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