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Transfixion

Transfixion \Trans*fix"ion\, n. The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced.
--Bp. Hall.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
transfixion

c.1600, noun of action from transfix.

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transfixion

n. (context surgery English) (''in amputation'') passing the knife from side to side through tissue close to the bone and dividing muscles outward

Usage examples of "transfixion".

For a pulseless moment I stood halfhearted in this transfixion, as if she were the simply baleful Old and not the paradoxic precious New Revised Medusa.