(n.) The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.
(n.) The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.
(n.) The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
(n.) A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results are discussed in relation to the possible existence of enzyme-bound intermediates of nitrogen fixation.
(2) The way how to apply this fixator is described in details.
(3) Good fixation was obtained in 4 cases using Steffee's devices.
(4) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
(5) Internal fixation of these pathological fractures appeared to be the best treatment.
(6) In open fractures especially in those with severe soft tissue damage, fracture stabilisation is best achieved by using external fixators.
(7) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
(8) The fracture can be treated arthroscopically by rigid internal fixation, while at the same time treating possible associated lesions.
(9) Total excision and immediate reconstruction were done with alloplastic material fixated with microplates and screws.
(10) These antibodies are usually characterized by the conventional platelet complement fixation test.
(11) Viruses isolated from ticks (Ixodes uriae) from a seabird colony on the Isle of May, Scotland, were shown by complement fixation tests to be related to the Uukuniemi and Kemerovo serogroups.
(12) Since 1984, 16 children (mean age 10.3 years) have had stabilization of their femoral shaft fractures by external fixation (Monofixateur) in the Trauma Department of the Hannover Medical School.
(13) Studies were undertaken to improve the production of histoplasmin for use in complement-fixation tests and in the determination of H and M antibodies.
(14) Effects of fixation with glutaraldehyde (GA), glutaraldehyde-osmium tetroxide (GA-OsO(4)), and osmium tetroxide (OsO(4)) on ion and ATP content, cell volume, vital dye staining, and stability to mechanical and thermal stress were studied in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells (EATC).
(15) Serology represents the primary method, using the techniques of complement fixation, indirect immunofluorescence, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
(16) We found that the Gallie system generally allowed significantly more rotation in flexion, extension, axial rotation, and lateral bending than the other three fixation techniques.
(17) Good correlation was obtained with results of complement fixation tests, whereas double diffusion in gel was less sensitive.
(18) At 4 degrees C or after fixation, anti-renal tubular brush border vesicle (BBV) IgG bound diffusely to the surface of GEC and to coated pits.
(19) Eight patients with infected nonunions had initial debridement procedures; three of these patients then had placement of external fixators and bone grafting.
(20) In difficult fractures we feel that change from external to internal fixation should be performed earlier; it makes early removal of the fixator pins possible and prevents the problems associated with prolonged use of fixator frames.
Suffix
Definition:
(n.) A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
(n.) A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a.
(v. t.) To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.
Example Sentences:
(1) The home of the newspaper's content has been theguardian.com, which is the only non-"dot com" domain suffix in the top 10 Google News list of digital news outlets.
(2) Non-speech sounds, on the other hand, produce no suffix effect even when the subjects are forced to process them.
(3) The functioning genes contain short insertions carrying polyadenylation signals and polyadenylation sites at the same position of the suffix.
(4) Picture and graphic suffixes led to small, reliable end-of-sequence suffix effects, but spoken suffixes did not.
(5) Two experiments were conducted to investigate the nature of the delayed-suffix effect reported by Watkins and Todres (1980).
(6) The results yielded a significant reduction in the recall of the terminal words of the definitions in the speech suffix conditions compared with the tone control.
(7) In two other experiments involving auditory and visual presentation, respectively, subjects who had never been given paired associate training were required to recall the English words that had previously been associated with the ASL and QV stimuli, in a standard suffix paradigm.
(8) 2) There was a normal suffix effect or attenuation of the recency effect when the digits were followed by an another irrelevant speech suffix, the "8".
(9) The grammatical forms assessed were verb-subject agreement third person singular, negative concord, possessive suffix, and continuative be.
(10) Errors of the auxiliary and suffix were easier for children to identify than an adverbial error which required a sentence analysis to determine the incompatibility.
(11) The company choose the event to announce, not one, but two new consoles: an updated version of the Xbox One with a simple “S” suffix, and a more powerful upgrade – codenamed Project Scorpio – due out next year.
(12) Thus, in noise suffix mode, probability of recall was increased at the last one or two digits as similarly with in no suffix mode.
(13) The semantic and syntactic implications of the suffix are never evaluated.
(14) These recency effects are greatly reduced when an irrelevant auditory stimulus (a stimulus suffix) is presented.
(15) Whatever crumbs of wrongdoing there may be, they don’t amount to something worthy of Watergate, or even the myriad gate-suffixed scandals since.
(16) The primary effect, the recency effect and the suffix effect are already regarded as the characteristic items of acoustic memory produced in subjects with normal hearing ability.
(17) The suffixes phys and abol, respectively, mean the physiological and solely Vm-abolished conditions.
(18) The nucleotide sequences of 8 genomic and 2 mRNA copies of the suffix were studied.
(19) Serial recall of lip-read, auditory, and audiovisual memory lists with and without a verbal suffix was examined.
(20) Advanced disorders are designated by a composed term classifying them among the groups of primary disease and specifying the advanced stage by a suffix, so that the underlying disease remains coining the term, even in unclassifiable cases in which only CMPDs can be applied.