transfixion
/tɹænsˈfɪk.ʃən/
transfixion noun: in amputation, passing the knife from side to side through tissue close to the bone and dividing muscles outward.
Noun
transfixion (countable and uncountable, plural transfixions)
- In amputation, passing the knife from side to side through tissue close to the bone and dividing muscles outward.
Forms of transfixion
| plural | transfixions |
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Origin of transfixion
From transfix + -ion.
Words that rhyme with transfixion
- friction
- astriction
- jurisdiction
- addiction
- benediction
- contradiction
- conviction
- depiction
- valediction
- constriction
- dereliction
- fan fiction
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- fiction
- indiction
- restriction
- affliction
- diction
- emiction
- eviction
- faan fiction
- infriction
- malediction
- prediction
- science fiction
- striction
- abstriction
- affixion
- condiction
- confliction
- effiction
- infixion
- miction
- pilimiction
- postdiction
- preconstriction
- prefixion
- reliction
- renoviction
- retrodiction
- scientifiction
- stiction
- suffixion
Questions about transfixion
- What does transfixion mean?
- Transfixion means in amputation, passing the knife from side to side through tissue close to the bone and dividing muscles outward.
- What part of speech is transfixion?
- Transfixion is a noun.
- How do you pronounce transfixion?
- Transfixion is pronounced /tɹænsˈfɪk.ʃən/.
- What is the plural of transfixion?
- The plural of transfixion is transfixions.
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