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