cauterization
Americannoun
plural
cauterizationsExample Sentences
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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
She was given a simple cauterization, and no one reported her.
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2022
Not sure, though I do wonder if that was television's first cauterization by blowtorch.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2013
To that attack of scarlet fever, and also to the too frequent and severe cauterization of my throat.
From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
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