Word Finder - fixation

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The act of fixing.

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The state of being fixed or fixated.

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The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.

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The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.

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In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.

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A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing.

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Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby satisfying the "fixation" requirement for the purposes of copyright law.

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In order to obtain copyright on a recording in the United States, the recording must have been reduced to fixation on or after February 15, 1972.

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The change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele) to a situation where only one of the alleles remains.

The fixation of nitrogen as a nitride has not been attended with commercial success.

Followed by bone grafting and percutaneous screw fixation to support joint and graft.

A process called nitrogen fixation helps convert nitrogen from the air into ammonia.

It is, in fact, fully established that these leguminous crops acquire a considerable amount of nitrogen by the fixation of the free nitrogen of the atmosphere under the influence of the symbiotic growth of their root-nodule-microbes and the higher plant.

An e mail received from the casualty's friend confirmed the team diagnosis and noted that the ankle required plating and external fixation.

The challenge is to obtain stable fixation of the ulna without violating the trochlear notch with screws.

The volar approach avoids dorsal blood supply, Percutaneous fixation is possible in undisplaced fractures.

In white-out conditions, there is a danger of target fixation leading to disorientation.

The fixation made evident the cytoplasm that surrounds the great central vacuole.

What is the complement fixation titre of antibody in the serum?

Surya Color Fixation - Formulated to extend the color of dyed hair and to revitalize damaged hair to bring back shine.

The term cataplexy, coined in 1902 by a Dr.Loëwenfeld, comes from the Greek word kataplexis meaning "fixation of the eyes."

Immobilization by external fixation uses splints, casts, or braces.

Internal fixation involves the use of metallic devices inserted into or through bone to hold the fracture in a set position and alignment while it heals.

Virtually any hip fracture requires open reduction and internal fixation so that the bone will be able to support the patient's weight.

Vision also involves fixation and eye movement abilities, accommodation (focusing), convergence (eye aiming), binocularity (eye teaming), and the control of hand-eye coordination.

In FSH, surgical fixation of the scapula can help compensate for shoulder weakness.

This binocular fixation (both eyes looking directly at the same object) is necessary to see three-dimensionally and to aid in depth perception.

They should chew sugarless gum or eat sugar-free hard candy to redirect the oral fixation that comes with smoking and to prevent weight gain.

Even if you don't have a specific David Bowie fixation, there's a tremendous appeal about 70s glam fashion, and not just for Halloween.

The second album, which shortly followed, was entitled, strangely, 'Oral Fixation' and was, of course, dedicated to her English-speaking followers.

Nitrogen fixation genes can also be added, thus reducing need for artificial fertilizers.

It may be that the concept of cementless fixation was prematurely condemned on the basis of remediable design flaws.

Testing ideas says he was looking its consequent fixation.

The type of internal fixation used is determined by the complexity of the fracture.

For this reason, many orthopedic consultants now favor surgical fixation.

In some hydroids the founder-polyp, developed from a planula after fixation, throws out numerous outgrowths from the base to form the hydrorhiza; these outgrowths may be radially arranged so as to form by contact or coalescence a flat plate.

The outcome of the whole round of changes, however, is the fixation of a certain part of the radiant energy absorbed by the chlorophyll.

It is convenient to place in a small envelope gummed to an upper corner of the sheet any flowers, seeds or leaves needed for dissection or microscopical examination, especially where from the fixation of the specimen it is impossible to examine the leaves for oilreceptacles and where seed is apt to escape from ripe capsules and be lost.

With few exceptions they are composed (i) of a minute organ of fixation (the scolex), which marks the proximal attached end of the body; (2) of a narrow neck from which (3) a number of segments varying from three to several thousands are budded off distally.

The apical senseorgan is used for temporary attachment to the maternal vestibule in which development takes place, but permanent fixation is effected by the oral surface.

Fixation takes place by means of this sucker, which is everted for the purpose, part of its epithelium becoming the basal ectoderm of the ancestrula.

Finally, in the Phylactolaemata, the larva becomes an ancestrula before it is hatched, and one or several polypides may be present when fixation is effected.

Robert Boyle, who made many researches on the origin and nature of fire, regarded the increase as due to the fixation of the particles of fire.

Again, no single point in the cortex evokes the act of ocular convergence and fixation.

The combined nitrogen of dead organisms, broken down to ammonia by putrefactive bacteria, the ammonia of urea and the results of the fixation of free nitrogen, together with traces of nitrogen salts due to meteoric activity, are thus seen to undergo various vicissitudes in the soil, rivers and surface of the globe generally.

Intermediate between these two types are species which have the power of temporal fixation by the exumbral surface.

The idea of a calyculate ancestor, though by no means connoting fixation, turned men's minds in the direction of the fixed forms, simply because in them the calyx was best developed.

A very few new mutant alleles can drift to fixation in this manner.

Examination of fixation using vertical prisms is useful in diagnosing amblyopia in the absence of strabismus.

The next best discriminator was a fixation disparity variable.

A common method of prescribing in the UK is to determine the amount of prism required to eliminate a fixation disparity.

These early events have been proposed to be the primary cause of the decline of the nitrogen fixation process under water deficits.

We have mini, small and large fragment sets for plate and screw fixation of fractures.

Biodegradable implants have been used in other sites particularly in the area of fracture fixation.

Increase in CO 2 does not translate into an increased in carbon fixation in photosynthesis; no increase is likely in the longer term.

The enzyme catalyzes the first step in carbon dioxide fixation in these plants and good inhibitors might be effective herbicides.

Nor is the use of context among the processes that occurs during an initial eye fixation.

Failure of fixation in tibial plateau fractures is very high in elderly patients due to poor bone quality.

Along with my sci-fi fixation, I am also a huge comic book geek.