Rigidity is the fixation of a joint by involuntary contraction of muscles, and is of value as a sign of disease in deep-seated joints, such as the hip.
The fits may cease some time before death, or, on the other hand, death may occur during a paroxysm from fixation of the diaphragm and arrest of respiration.
It must not be confused with the fixation of the jaw sometimes associated with a wisdom-tooth gumboil, with tonsillitis, or with affections of the temporo-mandibular articulation.
To differentiate by manipulation between muscular fixationand ankylosis, it may be necessary to anæsthetise the patient.
The occurrence of ulceration of cartilage and of articular caries is attended with the clinical signs of fixation of the joint from involuntary muscular contraction, wasting of muscles, and starting pains.
William's mother fixation is a somewhat extreme example of a fairly frequent source of conflict.
One should bear in mind that the parental fixation in itself does not directly produce the mishaps of adult life but this small fault in infancy generates wider and wider maladaptations as development progresses.
Therefore, the most we can say of the mental condition in ticquers is that there is an exaggeration of the mental infantilism or a fixation at or tendency toward regression to this type of thinking or of reaction.
The nuclear-complex of all this is a precociousness of emotional life and an intensive fixation on one or the other parent or brother or sister.
Their very precociousness aids the parental fixation and adhesion, and makes it the more difficult for the libido to detach itself at the proper age.
We may thus lay down in a general sort of way a conception which I like to call the theory of psychophysical progression, fixationand regression along evolutionary and developmental lines.
The intensive love fixation waxes the stronger as the unconscious hate requires increased barriers against its breaking through into the main or everyday personality.
If the fixation is not too extreme, and if later events do not happen to accentuate the trouble, the arrest of development may merely show itself in certain weaknesses of character or in isolated symptoms without developing a real neurosis.
Fixation is the word that expresses all this,--fixation of childish habits.
The love-force, besides being blocked by a fixation of childish love and of childish reactions toward authority, is very often kept from free mature self-expression by a perpetuation of a childish reaction against sex.
Of course fixation in these emotional habits does not always lead to a serious breakdown.
Introspection is a morbid, emotional fixation on self, until it takes on this quality of objectivity.
Or, again, the love of attention may be simply a sign of arrested development, a fixation of the Narcissistic period of childhood which loves to look at itself and make the world look.
We have already spoken of the danger of fixation in the second period, that of object-love--the period of family relationships.
Careful lateral search, however, will reveal the dilatation, and the localized periesophageal fixation may be demonstrated.
The localfixation and cicatricial contraction may be the site of a traction diverticulum.
Impaired movement of the carina indicates peritracheal and peribronchial pathology, the fixation being greatest in advanced cancer.
Fixation of the crico-arytenoid joints with an approximation of the cords may require evisceration of the larynx.
Corking the cannula is an excellent orthopedic treatment in certain cases where muscle atrophy and partial inflammatory fixation of the cricoarytenoid joints are etiological factors in the stenosis.
Cicatricial types of postdiphtheritic stenosis may be seen as webs, annular cicatrices of funnel shape, or masses of fibrous tissue causing fixation of the arytenoids as well as encroachment on the glottic lumen.
Invasion from the periesophageal organs produces more or less localized compression and fixation of the esophagus.
For your comprehension of the neuroses it is necessary to keep in mind this connection between fixation and regression.
Mourning is a type of emotional fixation on a theory of the past, which also brings with it the most complete alienation from the present and the future.
You will most readily reconcile yourself with these elucidations of fixation and regression, when you consider them as a preface to the investigation of the etiology of neuroses.
So you see that, although exaggerated and premature fixation of the libido is indispensable for the causation of neuroses, its sphere of action exceeds the limits of neuroses immeasurably.
The traumatic neuroses show clear indications that they are grounded in a fixation upon the moment of the traumatic disaster.
Every neurosis contains such a fixation, but every fixation does not lead to a neurosis, nor fall into the same class with neuroses, nor even set the conditions for the development of a neurosis.
It may countenance the fixation and accordingly become perverse or, what amounts to the same thing, become infantile.
It is noteworthy that for all the narcistic neuroses, we must assume fixation points of the libido which reach back into far earlier phases of development than in cases of hysteria or compulsion neuroses.
One of the most important insights we have to gain is the nature of the attitude which the ego exhibits when an intensive fixation of its libido is left behind in one stage of its development.
That this fixation is connected with the formation of minute tubercles on the roots of the plants of the leguminous class; and that these tubercles may be the home of the fixing organism.
This decomposition of carbonic acid, and thefixation of the carbon by the plant with the formation of starch, takes place only under the influence of sunlight.
Schloesing has recently shown that this fixation of free nitrogen by soils is extremely doubtful.
The rate at which the fixation of carbon takes place depends on the strength of the sun's rays.
Brüstlein and Peters on fixation of bases and acids by soil, 59.
So far as the question is at present investigated, it would seem that the fixation is effected by means of micro-organisms present in tubercles or root excrescences found on the roots of leguminous plants.
Our soils have a high fixation factor for phosphate and potash and we have found that the best practice is to place the fertilizer under the surface either with a deep-placement machine or as outlined above.
Mineral fertilizers should be applied in the late fall, for under our conditions fixation of phosphate and potash is considerably less at that time.
To carry out this experiment a little practice in fixationis required, since in natural vision we are always inclined to direct our line of vision to that point, to which our attention is turned.
How could the sensations of the membrane of the tympanum, or of the fixation muscles of the eye, account for that intense feeling of expectation which an exciting novel or a good play may cause?
Those stains which are dissolved in methyl-alcohol combine fixation with the staining process.
Fixation may be accomplished by chemicals or by heat.
Chemic fixation may precede eosin-methylene-blue and other simple stains.
Fixation by passing the film quickly through a flame about twenty times, as is often done in routine work, is not recommended for beginners.
Should the film be washed off during future manipulations, fixation has been insufficient.
This may precede any of the methods which do not combine fixation with the staining process; it must be used with Ehrlich's triple stain.
Just what the manner and nature of this fixation are, is still uncertain.
When treated with dilute acids, the hair, especially if it is of a very woolly nature, retains considerable quantities of acid, this phenomenon being probably due to the fixation of the acid by the basic groups in the hair.
But the proclamation of this liberty, and the fixation of its limits, how wide soever they be, is always the affair of morality.
After some hesitation we attempted the method of fixation by means of steel plates, which was introduced with such success by Sir Arbuthnot Lane in the case of simple fractures.
What interested them most was the fixation of fractures by means of steel plates, which we adopted in all our serious cases.
In addition, owing to the space which separates the two eyes, convergent movements, caused by stimuli equally distributed between the two internal recti, are required for the fixation of nearer and nearer-lying objects.
The forces of fixation in China have been too strong to admit of this.
But she does have a fixation on that one subject of punctuality.
She has one small imperfection, a fixation about punctuality.
Its occurrence appears to be due to a fatigue process in consequence of which the mechanism becomes insensible to slight changes resulting from releases among the tensions upon which constant fixation depends.
The experience of strain in the act of fixation increases and decreases with the distance of the object regarded.
Most serious of all is the fixation of habit and custom, so that at length "custom lies upon us with a weight heavy as death, and deep [Page 81] almost as life.
When the facts are inductively considered, it appears that the Koran was from the first rather a force of intellectual fixation than one of stimulus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fixation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
