a partial arrest of emotional and instinctual development at an early point in life, due to a severe traumatic experience or an overwhelming gratification. a preoccupation with one subject, issue, etc.; obsession: All her life she had a fixation on stories of violent death.

What does fixation mean in death?

This is a word for dying from lack of oxygen. Anyone who chokes to death dies from asphyxiation. This is a medical word for a horrible thing that could happen to anyone. Asphyxiation, also known as suffocation, means to die from lack of oxygen.

What does it mean when someone is fixated?

(fɪkseɪtɪd ) adjective [v-link ADJ on/with/by n] If you accuse someone of being fixated on a particular thing, you mean that they think about it to an extreme and excessive degree.