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

We have to answer that the process of creative evolution makes imperative the transfixion by the intellect of these so-called spiritual perceptions.

From The Fourth Dimensional Reaches of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Williams, Cora Lenore

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

In a chapter entitled "De craneo perforato" he gives us, however, the treatment of wounds of the head produced by the transfixion of that member by an arrow.

From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer

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

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