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

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

Amputation in Upper Two-Thirds.—Where the fore-arm is very fat or fleshy, this amputation can be very easily performed by two equal antero-posterior flaps made by transfixion.

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

I have been told that Aunt Serapheema did not answer him for fully half a minute, but subjected him to what might be called a process of ocular transfixion.

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon