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

Sewell describes a case of transfixion of the chest in a youth of eighteen.

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

Presently he sank back into his chair, holding one hand to his heart, that still throbbed from the strange transfixion.

From The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale For Tired Men by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

Making the long flap by transfixion, it may be held back by an assistant, and the joint cut into.

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

Amputation in Upper Two-Thirds.—Where the fore-arm is very fat or fleshy, this amputation can be very easily performed by two equal antero-posterior flaps 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