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Fixation

noun

An abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely. Synonyms: arrested development, infantile fixation, regression.

An unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone. Synonym: obsession.

The activity of fastening something firmly in position.

(histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body. Synonym: fixing.

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"Fixation" Quotes from Famous Books

... all-important thing is to save and sow the seed of separate individuals separately. However alike they look, the seed from different individuals must on no account be mixed. Provided that due care is taken in this respect no long and tedious process of selection is required for the fixation of any given variety. Every possible variety arising from a cross appears in the F2 generation if only a sufficient {155} number is raised, and of all these different varieties a certain proportion of each is already fixed. Heredity is ...

— Mendelism - Third Edition • Reginald Crundall Punnett

... (2.) By a splint supporting the fore-arm and hand, the fingers being held in a semiflexed position by a large pad of cork fastened firmly on to the splint and made to fit the palm; this prevents the splint from slipping up the arm, and by a turn of a bandage insures fixation of the wrist-joint. The anterior part of this splint below the fingers may be gradually shortened, allowing more and more passive motion of the fingers, but the patient must wear it for months, indeed, till he finds his wrist as strong ...

— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell

... when considering the action of chemical substances on pelt (i.e., animal hide, treated with lime, depilated, and the surplus flesh removed). Whereas any true tannage is characterised by the complete penetration of the substance and its subsequent fixation by the pelt in such a way that a thorough soaking and washing will not bring about a reconversion (of the leather) to the pelt state; pickling, on the other hand, is only characterised by the penetration of the substance in the pelt and fixation to such an extent that a subsequent ...

— Synthetic Tannins • Georg Grasser

Words linked to "Fixation" : plastination, abnormality, histology, attachment, fixate, preservation, fastening, abnormalcy, preoccupation