cauterization

American  

[kaw-tuh-riz-ay-shuhn, -rahyz-] / ˌkɔ tə rɪzˈeɪ ʃən, -raɪz- /

noun

• cauterizations
  plural

1. an act or instance of cauterizing.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• cauterizations
  plural

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cauterization cauterizations

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

Sometimes the cauterization of sensitive information can rest on something far flimsier.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2016

Not sure, though I do wonder if that was television's first cauterization by blowtorch.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2013

Treatment consists in opening the pustule and thorough cauterization, and the subsequent use of antiseptic applications or dressings.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon

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 John K. Mitchell

D, Completely and permanently cured after repeated cauterizations.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson

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 Chevalier Jackson