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What does cauterise mean?

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To cauterise the track and so prevent bleeding, the needles should be slowly withdrawn while the current is flowing.
And when they heat up, so the theory goes, they will cauterise any nearby cancer cells. To get them to the cancer, you whip up a batch of, say, 80 trillion of them and inject it into the patient's bloodstream.
Doctors had to cauterise blood vessels in his nostril to stem the flow while his dad, Stephen Vallily, of Grove Hill, anxiously hoped it was not a flare-up of the disease.
The young woman understood this, and she endeavoured to cauterise the bad place with the fire of her caresses.
Does not the surgeon also cauterise and cut us for our good?
Some claim that the rest of Europe has been ringfenced from Greece and that the ECB has tools at its disposal to amputate Greece, if need be, cauterise the wound and allow the rest of eurozone to carry on.

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