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Cauterize   /kˈɔtəraɪz/   Listen
Cauterize

verb
(past & past part. cauterized; pres. part. cauterizing)
1.
Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent.  Synonyms: burn, cauterise.
2.
Make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals.  Synonyms: callous, cauterise.






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"Cauterize" Quotes from Famous Books



... oil of St. John's wort to the tumour," replied Blaize, with a dismal groan, and said, "if the scar did not fall off, he must cauterize it. Oh! I shall never be able to bear ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth

... sanitarium where the Senior Surgeon's money had sent her. Only in this one wild, defiling moment did the lust for alcohol surge up in him again, surge clamorously, brutally, absolutely mercilessly, as though in all the known cleansants of the world only interminable raw whisky was hot enough to cauterize a polluted consciousness. At half past three, as soon as he could change his clothes again, he re-broke and re-set an acrobat's priceless leg. At five o'clock, more to rest himself than anything else, he went up to the autopsy amphitheater to look over ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... corns out. If there is inflammation, cold baths and poultices should be used; when the horn is well softened and the fever allayed, pare out the diseased horn, lightly cauterize the soft tissues beneath, and poultice the foot for two or three days. When the granulations look red, dress the wound with oakum balls saturated in a weak solution of tincture of aloes or spirits of camphor and apply a roller bandage. Change the dressing ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... Irish life is quieta non movere. Because, when you lay a finger on the most harmless and impotent things, they spring at once into hissing and spitting things, like the Lernaean hydra; and then, like that famous monster, you must cauterize the wound to heal, or prevent new hideous developments. You have, as yet, no idea of how many ways, all different and mutually antagonistic, there are, of looking at things in Ireland. To your mind there seems but one,—one judgment, ...
— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan

... Rule 3.—Cauterize. Dip wooden meat skewer, or lead pencil, into pure nitric acid, and rub into wound. Or, use red-hot poker, or red-hot nail grasped by tongs or pincers, or ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) • Various



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