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

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 Bell, Joseph

Complete transfixion of the abdomen does not always have a fatal issue.

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

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

Longmore gives an instance of complete transfixion by a lance of the right side of the chest and lung, the patient recovering.

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