If the piles are very small they may be secured without transfixion in a single noose after being seized by a hook or forceps.
Most surgeons are now agreed that in this operation it is better to make both flaps by cutting from without, in preference to transfixion of the plantar one from within.
This may be made by transfixionat its base, but is better obtained by dissection from without.
Signoroni modified this by fixing the invaginated skin by a piece of female catheter, retained in its place by transfixion by three harelip needles, tied by twisted sutures.
In cases of iris bombé where iritis is still present, and in cases of cysts of the iris, transfixion is all that is necessary.
During the transfixion care must be taken not to prick the bowel with the needle.
Transfixion is therefore made horizontally; and the posterior flap should be a little longer than the anterior.
The incisions may be made either from without inwards, or from within outwards, after transfixion of the limb.
The precaution, however, of making the second transfixion considerably lower than the first I have found quite effectual.
As soon as transfixion is accomplished, the operator has complete command of the eye, and all pressure should be taken off—the assistant should now merely keep the eyelid raised.
The flaps may be formed otherwise, and much more handsomely, by transfixion of the ball of the thumb, as shown in the Practical Surgery, p.
Division of the capsule by the point of the knife during transfixionhas been practised; but it is an unsafe, though dexterous, measure.
Babington speaks of a case of heart-injury, caused by transfixion by a bayonet, in which the patient survived nine hours.
Complete penetration ortransfixion of the thoracic cavity is not necessarily fatal, and some marvelous instances of recovery after injuries of this nature, are recorded.
Complete transfixion of the abdomen does not always have a fatal issue.
Longmore gives an instance of complete transfixion by a lance of the right side of the chest and lung, the patient recovering.
Penetration or even complete transfixion of the brain is not always attended with serious symptoms.
Sewell describes a case of transfixion of the chest in a youth of eighteen.
In some nations in olden times, the extremest degree of punishment was transfixion by a stake.
It is also probable that in most of the many cases where we have no clue as to which kind of stauros was used, the cause of the condemned one's death was transfixion by a pointed stauros.
What the Pagans held in utter horror was the awful death caused by transfixion by or affixion to a stauros, whatever its shape; the symbol of the cross was, upon the contrary, an object of veneration among them from time immemorial.
For instance, the death spoken of, death by the stauros, included transfixion by a pointed stauros or stake, as well as affixion to an unpointed stauros or stake; and the latter punishment was not always that referred to.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transfixion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bore; boring; penetration; perforation; piercing; puncture; stabbing
