cauterization
Americannoun
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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
Brogan: You had done the cauterization of some of those blood vessels—
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2017
Sometimes the cauterization of sensitive information can rest on something far flimsier.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2016
The other is scientific cauterization, and is a surgical manipulation which should be committed exclusively to the practiced hand of the veterinary surgeon.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
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