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
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 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
When this is applied, a method of amputation once practised by Mr. Syme, though not so rapid as the double-flap method by transfixion, will be found very easy, and to result in most excellent flaps.
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
