transfixion
Example Sentences
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And I think this transfixion that happens with this Greyhound, who I think I met once, you know, and then stands there transfixed, there’s a beauty in that—that there’s, you know, everything seems tied.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 20, 2019
In cases where the long anterior cannot be obtained, two equal flaps should be made by transfixion.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
Sewell describes a case of transfixion of the chest in a youth of eighteen.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Most surgeons are now agreed that in this operation it is better to make both flaps by cutting from without, in preference to transfixion of the plantar one from within.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
I have been told that Aunt Serapheema did not answer him for fully half a minute, but subjected him to what might be called a process of ocular transfixion.
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables
