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
He even removed 15 cancers from his own body by means of electrical cauterization.
From Slate ● May 4, 2016
Sometimes the cauterization of sensitive information can rest on something far flimsier.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2016
Where cases progress favorably, lameness subsides in about three weeks after cauterization and little if any recurrence of the impediment is manifested thereafter.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
D, Completely and permanently cured after repeated cauterizations.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
The utmost caution should be used to avoid deep cauterizations; they are almost certain to set up perichondritis which will increase the stenosis.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
Then came spinal pain and irregular menstruation, a long course of local cauterizations of the womb, spinal braces, and endless tonics and narcotics.
From Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria by Mitchell, John K.
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