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How to pronounce cauterize in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms burn, cauterise
Type of burn, care for, treat
Derivation cauterant, cauterization, cautery


The surgeon cauterized the wart.
Type Words
Synonyms callous, cauterise
Type of indurate, harden, inure

Examples of cauterize

cauterize
Along the way, he reaches a steam pipe and uses it to cauterize his ankle stump.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Later, special medical instruments called cauters were used to cauterize arteries.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In fact, Obama clearly sensed his own vulnerability and quickly tried to cauterize it.
From the washingtonpost.com
If you wish to cauterize down to the bone, carry it out at a site where there are no muscles.
From the theatlantic.com
Scissors smaller than a fingernail cut an artery and immediately cauterize it with a puff of smoke.
From the dailyherald.com
Only as recently as 2010 did coalition forces, bolstered by Obama's troop surge, try to cauterize what Gen.
From the nytimes.com
We can move a catheter to that point and cauterize the tissue, and with that all the ventricular tachycardia is gone.
From the abcnews.go.com
De Lia then fires a surgical laser at the vessels through the fetoscope to seal or cauterize the connecting vessels.
From the sciencedaily.com
But the VCs will be quick to amputate and cauterize.
From the techcrunch.com
More examples
  • Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart"
  • Callous: make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
  • (cauterization) cautery: the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing
  • The medical practice or technique of cauterization is a medical term describing the burning of part of a body to remove or close off a part of it in a process called cautery, which destroys some tissue, in an attempt to mitigate damage, remove an undesired growth, or minimize other potential ...
  • Cauterize was an alternative rock band from Canada that was active between the years 1995-2007. Most notably its guitarist, Chuck Coles, went on to play in ex-Sum 41 guitarist Dave Baksh's heavy metal band Brown Brigade and most recently started his own southern rock project along with Cauterize ...
  • (cauterizer) One who, or that which, cauterizes
  • (cauterization) (KAW-ter-ih-ZAY-shun): The destruction of tissue with a hot instrument, an electrical current, or a caustic substance.
  • (cauterization) The use of heat to destroy abnormal cells. Also called diathermy or electrodiathermy.
  • (Cauterization) The passage of electrical current through tissue resulting in coagulation. This is a type of electrical burn.