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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cauterizations
  plural

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Example Sentences

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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

Other harmful or nonmedical procedures, including piercing, pricking, incising, scraping and cauterization.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2019

Brogan: You had done the cauterization of some of those blood vessels—

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2017

We have already referred to the subject of treatment and the means employed—rest, of course—with liniments, blisters, etc., and what we esteem as the most active and beneficial of any, early, deep, and well-performed cauterization.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

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

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

D, Completely and permanently cured after repeated cauterizations.

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

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