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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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Use "transfixion" in a sentence
  • "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."