Fixation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FIXATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of fixating
• an obsessive interest in or feeling about someone or something
• (in Freudian theory) the arresting of part of the libido at an immature stage, causing an obsessive attachment
• the action or process of fixing or being fixed
• the process by which some plants and microorganisms assimilate nitrogen or carbon dioxide
• the process of preserving or stabilizing (a specimen) with a chemical substance prior to microscopy or other examination
• the action of concentrating the eyes directly on something
• obsessive interest in something
• The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.
• The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.
• The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
• A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals.
• an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
• an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
• 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

Words related to FIXATION

fixations19

Words that contain FIXATION

fixations19 affixation23 infixation20 affixations24 infixations21 suffixation24 suffixations25

How to use FIXATION in a sentence

• After some hesitation we attempted the method of fixation by means of steel plates, which was introduced with such success by Sir Arbuthnot Lane in the case of simple fractures.
• What interested them most was the fixation of fractures by means of steel plates, which we adopted in all our serious cases.
• This will be a third factor in the fixation of this class of bachelor women.
• One consequence of the new land law was a legal fixation of the social classes.
• The reproduction of the conditions of the earlier flight, the familiar associations of the trail, must have helped rather than hindered his fixation in the past.
• The experience of strain in the act of fixation increases and decreases with the distance of the object regarded.
• Careful lateral search, however, will reveal the dilatation, and the localized periesophageal fixation may be demonstrated.
• Invasion from the periesophageal organs produces more or less localized compression and fixation of the esophagus.
• We may overlook an area in our visual field, especially when it lies far to one side from our fixation point, but as soon as anything moves in that area our attention is drawn.

Similar words containing FIXA without suffix tion

fixate16 affixal20 fixable19 fixated18 fixates17 fixatif20 antefixa18 fixatifs21 fixating19 fixative21 fixature18 prefixal20 suffixal21 affixable24 antefixae19 antefixal19 fixations19 fixatives22 fixatures19 postfixal21 affixation23 infixation20 prefixally25 affixations24 infixations21 suffixation24 suffixations25

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