cauterize
/ˈkɔːtərʌɪz
/(also cauterise)
verb [with object]
Burn the skin or flesh of (a wound) with a heated instrument or caustic substance in order to stop bleeding or to prevent infection: I’ll freeze the hand and cauterize the wound...
- The man cauterized the wound, stopping the blood loss.
- Where did they find the instruments needed to cauterize wounds?
- Any bleeding is immediately cauterized with an arthroscopic electrocautery tip.
Synonyms
burn, sear, singe, scorch;
disinfect, sterilize, sanitize, clean, cleanse, decontaminate
Derivatives
cauterization
/ noun ...- Another option is electrosurgical cauterization of the diseased tissue, which can be performed to treat implants found during laparoscopy; however, the implants can recur after only one or two years.
- On rare occasions, a nose bleed may require cauterization, which is done by the ENT surgeons.
- These vibrations cut and coagulate tissue simultaneously at far lower temperatures than cauterisation, thus reducing lateral thermal tissue damage.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French cauteriser, from late Latin cauterizare, from Greek kautēriazein, from kautērion 'branding iron', from kaiein 'to burn'.
- electrotelegraphic
- electrotelegraphy
- electrotherapeutic
- electrotherapeutical
- electrotherapeutics
- electrotherapist
- electrotherapy
- electrothermal
- electrothermic
- electrothermy
- electrotin
- electrotinning
- electro-tinplate
- electro-tin plating
- electrotint
- electrotonic
- electrotonically
- electrotonicity
- electrotonus
- electrotractor
- electrotransfer
- electrotropic
- electrotropism
- electrotype
- electrotyper