(n.) The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.
(n.) The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Close examination of these predictor-outcome relationships suggests that prognosis in chronic schizophrenia may be thought of as the variability (as opposed to fixedness) remaining in the individual's future life course, and poor outcome can be predicted with greater sensitivity than good outcome.
(2) In particular, the theory shows how the functional fixedness of the dots can be overcome and the correct solution obtained by a process of logic.
Fixity
Definition:
(n.) Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.
(n.) Coherence of parts.
Example Sentences:
(1) A history of pain, hardness, and fixity, found in 30-50% of parotid cancers, were significant indicators of malignancy.
(2) Lesions observed in the small bowel included fixity of bowel loops, thickening of the wall, coarsening of the mucosal pattern and strictures.
(3) Rectal endosonographic estimation of rectal cancer depth of invasion is an accurate measure of tumour penetration and may help distinguish between fixation due to inflammatory tissue and tumour fixity.
(4) Or it could be an excuse for division, intrigue and the sort of ideological fixity that makes the voters nervous of the Tories in confined spaces.
(5) skin tumors occurring over the breast may be clinically mistaken for breast carcinoma owing to their fixity to the skin.
(6) The indispensable distance between a fictional model and the fixity of a model (such as the electroencephalographic trace) becomes a fertile source when other paths are prudently explored and in the reduction of the illusion that one model can possibly overlap the other.
(7) The fixity of the therapeutic demand of the transsexual renders it refractory to psychotherapeutic analysis, which always tries to reveal an other demand behind the explicit demand.
(8) We therefore measured the activity of four peptidases in 50 specimens of tumour and normal colonic wall from patients with a rectal or sigmoid carcinoma, and correlated this with the stage, differentiation, fixity of the tumour and presence of venous invasion, determined histologically.
(9) It is stressed in one case the particular fixity of the maternal phantasmatic world and in the other the modifiability which can be influenced, in the latter case, by the conscious fantasies and the relationship with her own family and her own child.
(10) A quantitative method was proposed to evaluate with greater sensitivity the intensity of delusional conviction and its fixity over time.
(11) Also, operators postures are often incorrect, making problems related to their own fixity worse.
(12) Observations during operation such as palpable lymph nodes, fixity to adjacent organs, and tumor spill were related to a diminished tumor-free survival.
(13) The Ho's N-staging is superior to the other N-stage classifications, because once the Ho's N-stage has been determined, other nodal characteristics including nodal size, multiplicity, laterality, and fixity, are prognostically insignificant.
(14) There were two special characteristics: fixity in time, and the ability to produce the pain on palpation of the region around the aorta.
(15) Analyzed parameters were nodal stage, size, site and fixity, and location of primary.
(16) The posterior larynx was the site of a major inflammation with fixity of the arytenoids.
(17) Questions concerning the issues of fixity and intensity of delusions are raised and a proposal is made for attempting to operationalize these concepts using a 'personal questionnaire' method.
(18) The regional outcome is influenced by clinical features such as nodal size, multiplicity and fixity.
(19) Mobility versus fixity was defined in terms of more or less frequent changes of rod positions and choice of a high or a low proportion of nongeometrical positions in the RFT-Free.
(20) The measurement in a pilot study of the fixity and intensity of the beliefs of two patients using this method is described and the results reported.