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fixation

English

  1. 🔊 (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
  2. 🔊 the activity of fastening something firmly in position
  3. 🔊 an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
  4. 🔊 an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

Spanish

  1. 🔊 fijación fixation, fixing

Similar words

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