(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.
Immobility
Definition:
(n.) The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state.
Example Sentences:
(1) Global 'abnormality', hunching (rigid arching of back), hindlimb abduction, forepaw myoclonus, stereotyped lateral head movements, backing, and immobility occurred significantly only in drug-treated rats.
(2) The findings can be summarized as follows: (1) The effective concentration of SDS for termination of shark tonic immobility (an immediate and fast response) was close to its critical micellar concentration in sea water (70 microM).
(3) Chlordiazepoxide was without an effect on immobility or beta receptor binding when combined with forced swim.
(4) The main response characteristics are an immediate motor 'paralysis' (prolonged and generalized immobility), unresponsiveness, and abrupt and profound bradycardia.
(5) It is proposed that pinch-induced immobility is mediated by both dopaminergic and cholinergic systems.
(6) In contrast, the latter (opioid) reaction is associated with passive defense (immobility) and occurs in response to extended conspecific attack.
(7) It was concluded that immobility reflects a state of lowered mood in the rat which is selectively sensitive to antidepressant treatments.
(8) Silence and immobility: mutism and catatonia, this patient gives nothing to to hear, he gives to see.
(9) Tail suspension-induced immobility in rodents is specifically antagonized by antidepressants, and has been proposed as an animal model of depression.
(10) However, when the lesion was placed after the unconditioned test situation, retention of the burying was not affected, but the animals failed to show immobility behavior.
(11) The effects of implants of 17 beta-estradiol and cholesterol in four regions of the dorsal striatum were tested on the duration of the dorsal immobility response in gonadectomized male rats.
(12) licking, scratching, grooming, head and limb movements), a reaction termed immobility.
(13) Physical handicaps such as problems with chewing and swallowing, difficulties to cut food, immobility and mental restrictions are responsible for reduced food intake and malnutrition.
(14) Because of its gel-like consistency (water content of about 90%), there is some diffusional restricting of activity as indicated by the kinetic data of soluble and immoblized enzymes.
(15) Furthermore, although immobility was seen after p.o.
(16) Naloxone by itself, however, had no effect on tonic immobility, and only an exceptionally large dose of naloxone blocked the morphine potentiation.
(17) Because immobility followed the probe shock in all groups, this relative impairment was not due to differential motor activity.
(18) Patients with severe ankylosing spondylitis of long duration often have spinal osteoporosis secondary to ankylosis and immobility.
(19) The immobility of the second-order stimuli is evidenced by the striking inability of observers to report their direction of motion.
(20) Incontinence at onset is associated with measures of severity of stroke (and of immobility for fecal incontinence).