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
Most surgeons are now agreed that in this operation it is better to make both flaps by cutting from without, in preference to transfixion of the plantar one from within.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
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
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 Henry Ebenezer Handerson
Complete transfixion of the abdomen does not always have a fatal issue.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
