cauterize

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To burn, sear, or freeze tissue using a hot iron, electric current or a caustic agent
to burn or sear as with a heated iron
{v} to burn wiht hot irons, to fear
To close off using heat
burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart
To sear, as the conscience
make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic
burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart"
{f} burn, burn with a hot iron, sear; make callous; (Medicine) treat by cauterization; stop bleeding by applying heat (also cauterise)
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cau·ter·ize cauterizes cauterizing cauterized in BRIT, also use cauterise If a doctor cauterizes a wound, he or she burns it with heat or with a chemical in order to close it up and prevent it from becoming infected. He cauterized the wound with a piece of red-hot iron. to treat a wound or a growth on your body by burning it with hot metal, a laser, or a chemical (cautériser, from , from cauterium , from , from kaiein; CAUSTIC)
cauterization
The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application
cauterization
{n} the act of burning with irons
Cauterization
adustion
To cauterize
fire
cauterise
burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart"
cauterise
To burn, sear, or freeze tissue using a hot iron, electric current or a caustic agent
cauterise
{f} burn, burn with a hot iron, sear; make callous; (Medicine) treat by cauterization; stop bleeding by applying heat (also cauterize)
cauterise
make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
cauterised
past of cauterise
cauterises
third-person singular of cauterise
cauterising
present participle of cauterise
cauterization
{i} process of burning or scarring with a hot iron or other implement and often for the purpose of killing infection (also cauterisation)
cauterization
the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing
cauterized
past of cauterize
cauterizes
third-person singular of cauterize
cauterizing
present participle of cauterize
cauterize

    Hyphenation

    cau·ter·ize

    Synonyms

    sear, singe, burn

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    () From Middle French cauteriser, from Late Latin cauterizare (“to burn with a hot iron”), from Ancient Greek καυτηριάζω (kautēriazō, “to brand”), from καυτήρ (kautēr, “branding iron”), from καίειν (kaiein, “to burn”).
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