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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kaw-tuh-rahyz |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɔ təˌraɪz |
Définition of cauterize
Origin :- c.1400, from Old French cauterisier, from Late Latin cauterizare "to burn or brand with a hot iron," from Greek kauteriazein, from kauter "burning or branding iron," from kaiein "to burn" (see caustic). Related: Cauterized; cauterizing.
- verb disinfect by burning
- He can take nothing away, but only cauterize and neutralize, he says, so why not let him try?
- Extract from : « Death of a Spaceman » by Walter M. Miller
- I had no caustic with me, so I determined to cauterize it with boiling grease.
- Extract from : « Sport in Abyssinia » by Dermot Mayo
- Besides this, they also bleed the patient and cauterize the wound.
- Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, June 1899 » by Various
- Well, I offered to cauterize it with the poker in the office stove.
- Extract from : « Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress » by George Bernard Shaw
- Take care, he says, not to cauterize the nerves in the neighborhood, for this will add a new ailment to the patient's affection.
- Extract from : « Old-Time Makers of Medicine » by James J. Walsh
- He knew his danger and deliberately fired, hoping to cauterize the wound and drive out the poison.
- Extract from : « On Secret Service » by William Nelson Taft
- "Any woman who has a conscience like that ought to cauterize it—with a curling-iron—and get rid of it," he observed dryly.
- Extract from : « Amazing Grace » by Kate Trimble Sharber
- Gerard coloured a little, and told him the learned doctor was going to flebotomize him and cauterize him; that was all.
- Extract from : « The Cloister and the Hearth » by Charles Reade
- Gerard coloured a little and told him the learned doctor was going to flebotomize him and cauterize him; that was all.
- Extract from : « The Cloister and the Hearth » by Charles Reade
- If a surgeon is at hand he would probably cut out the injured portion, or cauterize it thoroughly.
- Extract from : « A Practical Physiology » by Albert F. Blaisdell
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