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

Sewell describes a case of transfixion of the chest in a youth of eighteen.

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

Signoroni modified this by fixing the invaginated skin by a piece of female catheter, retained in its place by transfixion by three harelip needles, tied by twisted sutures.

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

Making the long flap by transfixion, it may be held back by an assistant, and the joint cut into.

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