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Webster 1913 Edition


Transfixion

Trans-fix′ion

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Noun.
The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced.
Bp. Hall.

Definition 2024


transfixion

transfixion

English

Noun

transfixion (plural transfixions)

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