(v. t.) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement.
(v. t.) To set or appoint beforehand; to settle or establish antecedently.
(n.) That which is prefixed; esp., one or more letters or syllables combined or united with the beginning of a word to modify its signification; as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present studies were performed to determine if the omission of prefixation would provide a better method for localizing adenylate cyclase in cardiac muscle.
(2) Close correspondence was found between the two eyes with respect to both prefixation tonic level and magnitude of tonic after-effect.
(3) In rigor control, crossbridges were most regular in muscles that were stabilized before freezing by prefixation in glutaraldehyde followed by 'hardening' with neutralized tannic acid, so all nucleotide treatments were terminated by such fixation.
(4) The difference in adhesivity between intact and stimulated PEC can be abolished by glutaraldehyde prefixation.
(5) Prolongation of the prefixation and increasing the pH of the incubation medium increased the staining intensity of the secondary granules and decreased the staining intensity of the primary granules.
(6) The frontal basal cisterns could not be filled sufficiently with the contrast agent due to haematoma and a prefixed chiasm accompanied by arachnoid adhesions in two cases.
(7) Prefixation digestions of epidermal sheets with chondroitinase ABC.
(8) When most utterances were long enough to include pronominal prefixes as well as roots, morphological structure was apparently discovered.
(9) Prefixed virus was round with peak diameters of 141 and 130 nm, respectively, in phosphotungstate, and 148 and 117 nm, respectively, in uranyl acetate.
(10) The retrochiasmal location of a tumour and the presence of a prefixed chiasm pose a major difficulty in total excision of craniopharyngiomas.
(11) After filipin incubation of prefixed vibratome slices, filipin-cholesterol complexes appeared as 20-30 proturberances and pits on P- and E-faces.
(12) Randomly distributed alpha-mannan was detected by scanning electron microscopy at the surface of prefixed protoplasts using colloidal gold labelled with Concanavalin A as a marker.
(13) Exposure to TPA or the use of a hyperosmolal prefixative vehicle both yielded higher DC numbers than did controls or conventional prefixative vehicles, respectively.
(14) On the resulting radiographs some prefixed distances were measured.
(15) While these machinations have been taking place behind the scenes, chief executive David Abraham has masterminded a rolling rebrand that has seen the company's 10 channels gradually drop the UKTV prefix on-screen in favour of attention-seeking one-word names.
(16) Prefixation in glutaraldehyde had little effect on vesicle sensitivity to subsequent tonicity change, not did the fixative per se exert an obvious osmotic effect.
(17) The possible relation with prefixation flow heterogeneity in the vasodilated preparation is discussed.
(18) After prefixation with hyperosmolal vehicles, however, TPA treatment did not induce higher DC yield than in a control series.
(19) After prefixation in formaldehyde, samples were immunostained with poly- or monoclonal antibodies to desmin or vimentin, and indirectly tagged with colloidal gold probes by the biotin-streptavidin method.
(20) The results confirm that 3T3 cells contain aggregated intramembranous particles and that native SV3T3 cells do not, regardless of whether cells are prepared in glycerol, sucrose, tissue culture medium or following prefixation in paraformaldehyde.
Refix
Definition:
(v. t.) To fix again or anew; to establish anew.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one group of patients peak eye movement velocities alone were measured during horizontal refixation saccades.
(2) In ten cases refixation of the osteochondral fragment was achieved.
(3) Isolated meniscus pathology (12.48%) was treated by arthroscopy alone, and refixation of the medial meniscus was carried out using the inside-out technique in 27 cases.
(4) In the second group, a tibial cortical bone graft was detached and refixed with Silar in 12 rats and left unfixed in eight.
(5) However, oval window problems such as footplate refixation, perilymph fistula, otosclerotic regrowth, and lateralized oval window membrane in 60% of cases often complicated prosthesis displacement.
(6) The 3-month-olds refixated more quickly to one of the double targets in the competition condition than to a single peripheral target, whereas 1-month-olds were slowed down by a double target display.
(7) The histamine release caused by CA and HSV-I is mediated by an immunological reaction, since the release was abolished and regained by removal from and refixation to the cell surface of the cell-bound immunoglobulins.
(8) Refixation is achieved by inserting small cannulated titanium screws by means of a special screwdriver.
(9) With targets set close to these contrast thresholds, correct refixations and the latency for shifting attention were examined in experiment 2.
(10) The main reason for the high postoperative recurrence rate after arthroscopic joint stabilization seems to be that refixation of the capsule is not performed at the level of the lesion, but above it, because of the position of the subscapularis tendon.
(11) The treatment of acute osteomyelitis involves debridement of soft tissue and bone sequesters, refixation of the fragments, most often by means of an external fixator, and suction drainage or wet dressing.
(12) Several experiments have shown the existence of an optimal landing position effect during isolated word recognition as well as during text reading; both the probability of refixating the test word and the gaze duration are smaller if the eye first fixates near the center of the word than if the eye first fixates other positions in the word.
(13) For a five-letter left-to-right sequencing task, patients refixated a mean of 2.10 times more than ideal, and controls refixated 1.15 times more than ideal (P less than 0.05).
(14) During refixations between stationary targets, some patients with CN occasionally acquired the target with a slow, rather than a saccadic movement.
(15) With the paretic eye fixating, there were a series of saccades when refixating in the direction opposite to the paralysis.
(16) Once a diagnosis is made, operation with either reduction or resection of the area of intussusception should be carried out with refixation of the bowel to the mesocolon and reapplication of surgical marker clips.
(17) So far several methods have been established for refixing the sternum halves after longitudinal sternotomy like steel wire or steel strap according to Parham.
(18) In the first group, consisting of 12 rats, the lateral condyle of the right femur was detached and refixed with Silar.
(19) Children were tested for refixation saccades, smooth ocular pursuit, spontaneous nystagmus, gaze nystagmus and OKN.
(20) If the rupture has occurred mainly at the point of insertion of the tendon, we can recommend transosseous refixation via V-bore channels with early functional follow-up treatment.