cauterization
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Chen, however, told Lisa Wolff that her husband’s lower leg was ischemic and had received no blood due to Wang’s cauterization of the popliteal artery.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025
When light and warmth dwindle, a layer of cells starts to spread where leaf stalk meets twig, like cauterization.
From Scientific American • Sep. 30, 2022
Other harmful or nonmedical procedures, including piercing, pricking, incising, scraping and cauterization.
From New York Times • May 24, 2019
Not sure, though I do wonder if that was television's first cauterization by blowtorch.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2013
But although nothing should be allowed to delay cauterization, yet the impossibility of an immediate application should not be accepted as a reason for its neglect at a later date.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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