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
Complete transfixion of the abdomen does not always have a fatal issue.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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
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 Sir Max Beerbohm
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 Joseph Bell
