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What does cauterize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cauterize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (chiefly US spelling) To burn, sear, or freeze tissue using a hot iron, electric current or a caustic agent.
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Before the emergence of technologies of light for depilation, the doctors used electrical energy to cauterize the feeder vessels.
As for medical use, its flame can sterilize medical instruments, incinerate soiled materials or cauterize wounds.
Take care, he says, not to cauterize the nerves in the neighborhood, for this will add a new ailment to the patient's affection.
Therefore, the gyneco-oncology surgeon can efficiently pinpoint, cauterize and treat patients' polyps.
So why don't I cauterize this at the outset, and say, 'How 'bout those Yankees?' Because you can practice, as you're walking up.
Bleeding may also be controlled by electrocautery, the use of an instrument heated with an electric current to cauterize, or burn, vessel tissue.

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