(v. t.) To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.
(v. t.) To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.
(v. t.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.
(v. t.) To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.
(v. t.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
(v. i.) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
(v. i.) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
(n.) A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
(n.) fettling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
(2) The binding properties of formalin-fixed amelanotic melanoma cells were not identical to those of endothelial or unfixed target cells.
(3) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
(4) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(5) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(6) At a fixed concentration of nucleotide the effectiveness of elution was proportional to the charge on the eluting molecule.
(7) This suggests that molars do not maintain a fixed relationship to incisors over time, and extreme care must be taken to standardize an experiment to a specific body weight when using this method.
(8) Using an antibody to the nerve growth factor receptor (NGFR), we examined dendritic reticulum cells (DRCs) immunohistochemically in 62 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded lymph nodes from patients with reactive follicular hyperplasia or with various types of lymphoma.
(9) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
(10) Rigidly fixing the pubic symphysis stiffened the model and resulted in principal stress patterns that did not reflect trabecular density or orientations as well as those of the deformable pubic symphysis model.
(11) Using a monoclonal antibody against dopamine and a rabbit antiserum against serotonin, 5-methoxytryptamine or tryptamine, we were able to achieve the simultaneous localization of two amines in glutaraldehyde-fixed sections of rat dorsal raphe nuclei.
(12) In one series of experiments, the animals were not treated before the tissues were conventionally fixed; in another, anesthetized animals were administered horseradish peroxidase 20 min before the tissues were fixed.
(13) Since all human cadaveric tissue is fixed whilst on the skeleton, we may assume that shrinkage of the muscles in such specimens is negligible.
(14) Isolated outer hair cells from the organ of Corti of the guinea pig have been shown to change length in response to a mechanical stimulus in the form of a tone burst at a fixed frequency of 200 Hz (Canlon et al., 1988).
(15) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
(16) In contrast, in paraffin as well as in frozen sections of chick oviduct, fixed by immersion or in vapor, PR was exclusively nuclear, including in the absence of progesterone, and the intensity of immunostaining was not modified by progesterone treatment.
(17) Filipin-induced lesions in glutaraldehyde-fixed parasites indicated higher levels of beta-hydroxysterols in the amastigote than in the promastigote plasma membrane, and in the promastigote flagellar membrane than in the body membrane.
(18) Using a silver staining technique (AgNOR technique), we have investigated the nucleolar organizer-associated proteins (NORs) in formalin-fixed paraffin embedded conjunctival specimens of 15 intraepithelial squamous carcinomas, 10 hyperplastic-dysplastic samples and 10 control epithelial fragments; the mean number of intranuclear black dots was determined for each case.
(19) Radiologists may encounter patients with fixed dental prostheses that may produce image distortion on MRI scans of the face and jaw.
(20) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
Pendulum
Definition:
(n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pendulum swung even further with growing fossil, archaeological and genetic data in the 1990s.
(2) As the political pendulum has swung over the decades, these competing archetypes have spurred endless innovations from inflation-linked bonds to free TV licences.
(3) It is improbable that the platform-pendulum controversy is due to differences in the amount of PS deprivation or the other sleep parameters measured here.
(4) The dynamic shear moduli of human dentin and enamel were measured using a torsion pendulum over a temperature range from 23 to 150 degrees C. For dentin, the shear modulus slightly increased for temperatures near 50 to 100 degrees C, which was caused by a loss of free water.
(5) Abnormal records of the curves were obtained in 78% of cases in the typical pendulum test and in 96% of cases in the smooth following test in which the movements of a light spot were followed using a gonioscope.
(6) The pendulum of arguments and popular operations swings back and forth, anchored to the problem of tendon healing and adhesions.
(7) Phase-locking was evaluated in three experiments using an interlimb coordination paradigm in which a person oscillates hand-held pendulums.
(8) - Biaxial telecobalt pendulum irradiation followed postsurgically, the focal dose being 7,000 rd.
(9) But TUC chief Brendan Barber blamed bankers and previous Tory governments for the economic mess: "This recession is not bad luck or an inevitable swing of the pendulum.
(10) The possibilities of variation in skip pendulum irradiation are examined, a schedule facilitates the choice of field breadth and pendulum angle.
(11) A technique using pendulum-arc rotation is presented for electron-beam treatment of generalized superficial malignancies.
(12) The observable myogenic movements are pendulum movements, ;tone rings' and ;tone waves'; the last of these can be weakly propulsive.
(13) The animals were lightly anesthetized and subjected to occipital trauma with a pendulum impactor.
(14) The therapy of testis tumors is multimodal, using lymphadenectomy, radiation therapy and chemotherapy, but the pendulum has swung so that chemotherapy has assumed the vital role in management.
(15) The US is finally giving up its old approach of telling the continent what to do.” The political pendulum has already swung in the latter.
(16) It is the age-old story of counter-revolution: not the restoration of the monarchy kind, but the intellectual kind, as the pendulum of ideas in development thinking swings back from the structuralism of the 1970s left towards the new right of the 1980s.
(17) Skip pendulum irradiation should gain importance, too, for the bremsstrahlung from a linear accelerator.
(18) Andrew Hall, chief executive of the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance exam board, has said A-levels need to be reliable "but the pendulum has swung too far that way, so there's a danger that they are too predictable".
(19) Up to now, the studies have used tests that were too complex in their interpretation (pendulum test) and they have been limited to a global appreciation of eye-tacking.
(20) The determination of the dose to the patient during excentric pendulum irradiation of the thoracic wall is described.