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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

This flap, including the patella, should be thrown up, the joint cut into, and a short posterior flap 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

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 Bell, Joseph

Longmore gives an instance of complete transfixion by a lance of the right side of the chest and lung, the patient recovering.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Sewell describes a case of transfixion of the chest in a youth of eighteen.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)