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transfixion

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transfixion /trans·fix·ion/ (-fik´shun) a cutting through from within outward, as in amputation.
trans·fix·ion (trns-fkshn)
n.
In amputation, passing the knife from side to side through tissues close to the bone and dividing muscles from within outward.

transfixion [trans-fik´shun]
a cutting through from within outward, as in amputation.

transfixion
a method of amputation in which the knife is passed directly through the soft parts, the cutting being done from within outward.


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It needed resuscitating and although Pietersen was playing his most sedentary innings of any note, Collingwood, recognising that he did not want a repeat of his Adelaide transfixion, and having taken 25 deliveries to get off the mark, began to chance his arm on the legside.
The child's shock at the episode--his "blue fear"; his leaping back to town among the rocks like a "panting toad"; and his solitary transfixion in the town square where the corpse is dragged--is a complex correlate of the adult's guilt.
The description of the lance anticipates Santa Teresa's account of her transfixion in which the angel thrust his sword into her heart, a description often analyzed for the transparency of its sexual images.
 
 
 
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