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Use cauterize in a sentence

Definition of cauterize:

  • (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart"
  • (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals

Sentence Examples:

Sores are always cauterized.

The iron of other agent in cauterizing.

In the ninth, their marrow is cauterized.

Applied fresh to ulcers, it cauterizes the margins of them.

The manner of treating cauterized parts I have already explained.

Essex was the man who would cauterize the long-standing sores.

This was removed, and the bone cauterized with little good effect.

The Scull or Head should never be cauterized with a burning Iron.

Besides this, they also bleed the patient and cauterize the wound.

Before deciding to cauterize, it is necessary to ascertain the extent of area affected.

"I'd like to point out that the valley's been completely cauterized," he said.

I tore the woman out of my heart and cauterized its bleeding wounds.

If it cannot be cauterized, it is proper for the patient to be bled.

Mine should have been cauterized long ago, by other and harsher means, you think.

Then he picked up one of the brands and with it cauterized the wound.

Wash the wound freely with warm water to encourage bleeding, then cauterize thoroughly.

With the bar of iron, at almost a white heat, he cauterized the wound.

Punctured wounds should be laid open with a knife and the surfaces freely cauterized.

Then the wounds were cauterized, a task which was not relished by the boys.

In fact, we had some notion of going to a surgeon and having the bites cauterized.

They burned it, cauterized it, wired it, knifed it, and pronounced it a thorough job.

After that, if the part is neither nervous nor muscular, the wound must be cauterized.

The water was very cauterizing, and covered their legs and feet with boils and sores.

When the bone is cauterized, the remaining part of the cure is the same as in other burns.