transfixion

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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

Complete penetration or transfixion of the thoracic cavity is not necessarily fatal, and some marvelous instances of recovery after injuries of this nature, are recorded.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

This flap, including the patella, should be thrown up, the joint cut into, and a short posterior flap made by transfixion.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph

We have to answer that the process of creative evolution makes imperative the transfixion by the intellect of these so-called spiritual perceptions.

From The Fourth Dimensional Reaches of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Williams, Cora Lenore

Signoroni modified this by fixing the invaginated skin by a piece of female catheter, retained in its place by transfixion by three harelip needles, tied by twisted sutures.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph