Definition of "transfixion" []

• (in amputation) passing the knife from side to side through tissue close to the bone and dividing muscles outward (noun)

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• "This time I think I have nailed it, though what It is, and whether it is improved by transfixion with nails, are both matters open to question."
• "This transfixion lasted as long as the humming and the brilliant starlight."
• "If ever the human eye had the power of transfixion, that hamster should have been skewered alive."