Usually means: Piercing through with sharp object.
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  1. transfixion: Merriam-Webster
  2. transfixion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. transfixion: Collins English Dictionary
  4. transfixion: Wordnik
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  7. Transfixion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. transfixion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Transfixion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
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  11. Transfixion: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. transfixion: Legal dictionary

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  1. transfixion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. transfixion: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  (surgery) In amputation, passing the knife from side to side through tissue close to the bone and dividing muscles outward.

Similar:
transection, transversectomy, fasciectomy, transversostomy, secting, ansotomy, excision, hemisection, dissection, fragmentectomy, more...

Phrases:
transfixion suture, more...

Adjectives:
complete, double, skeletal, full, septal, high, strange, simple, unilateral, wire, partial

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Similar:
transection, transversectomy, fasciectomy, transversostomy, secting, ansotomy, excision, hemisection, dissection, fragmentectomy, more...

Phrases:
transfixion suture, more...

Adjectives:
complete, double, skeletal, full, septal, high, strange, simple, unilateral, wire, partial



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