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
Prevention.—When a horse is known to have been bitten by a rabid animal, immediate cauterization of the wound with a red-hot iron may possibly destroy the virus before absorption of it takes place.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
D, Completely and permanently cured after repeated cauterizations.
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.
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
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