The extremely critical ability to point the eyes at an object and to voluntarily keep them on the target Without good fixation ability, a child can become easily distracted and has difficulty concentrating Words can also appear to move on the page causing near visual distortion
The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements
Immobilization of the facial bones after a surgical procedure by means of wires, screws, plates, elastics, or splints until the healing process is complete
If you accuse a person of having a fixation on something or someone, you mean they think about a particular subject or person to an extreme and excessive degree. The country's fixation on the war may delay a serious examination of domestic needs
(histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body the activity of fastening something firmly in position
An event that occurs when all the alleles at a locus except one are eliminated from a population The remaining allele, now occurring with a frequency of 100%, is said to have been fixed (FAO org)