-kshən noun
( -s )
Etymology: Late Latin transfixion-, transfixio, from Latin transfixus + -ion-, -io -ion
1. : an act, process, or instance of transfixing or of being transfixed
there was only silence and transfixion in the gray world above the forests — J.R.Ullman
2. : a piercing of a part of the body (as by a suture, nail, or other device) in order to fix it in position