Science and Medicine
- "Fix", an addictive drug, hence 'fixing', taking addictive drugs (from the 1960s)
- Factor IX, a coagulation factor
- Fixation (histology), a technique to preserve biological tissue via chemical processes
- The process of making a molecule biologically active, for example Nitrogen fixation
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