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

This may be made by transfixion at its base, but is better obtained by dissection from without.

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)

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 Bell, Joseph

If the piles are very small they may be secured without transfixion in a single noose after being seized by a hook or forceps.

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