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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:

Four hours later a doctor arrived, and cauterized the wound, but alarming symptoms soon appeared.

Boiling was out of the question, but the tea leaves became soaked and the bacon cauterized.

Then, producing the proper instruments from the wonderful case, he proceeded to cauterize the wound.

Some of the most difficult cases that have come to the author have been previously cauterized too deeply.

Destroy the remnants of Government and cauterize the wound so that it will never re-infect again.

If a surgeon is at hand he would probably cut out the injured portion, or cauterize it thoroughly.

Then upon the wound, after burning, must be applied what is proper for other cauterized ulcers.

Thanks to his courage and presence of mind, his wound, cauterized in time, could have no dangerous consequences.

A dilute solution is used to cauterize poisoned wounds, but is dangerous, as it may penetrate too deeply and spread.

My dad had just three come to him early this morning to have wounds cauterized to make sure!

He knew his danger and deliberately fired, hoping to cauterize the wound and drive out the poison.

I had to have it cauterized, besides doing completely for the only decent suit I had with me.

In recent times there have been men versed in the art of cauterizing the shadows of their patients.

When they chopped off those hands, centuries ago, the stumps were cauterized by putting them in boiling oil.

Hurry to the nearest physician and bring him hither to cauterize the wound and burn out the poison.

Because principle, guided by experience, has previously told you that to cauterize is in some cases the way to heal.'

In the end I did nothing, and when my father came home he did not have the wound cauterized.

He then cauterized my stomach vigorously in six different places, quoting a tradition, "the End of Physic is Fire."

We know how to cauterize a wound, but we know of no treatment as yet for the stab of a phrase.

"The heat of the powder flash cauterized the cut ends of the veins and closed them up," Charley explained.

He cauterized it every day for four weeks, and at the end of that time the sore dried up and healed.

Some writers advocate cauterizing the wound with a hot iron; but, whatever is done, do quickly, and do not be afraid.

When a sore spot appears it ought to be cauterized at once without waiting for it to develop into an eating, destroying cancer.

The flame from the pistol had been so close that it had actually cauterized the wound inflicted by the ball.

Just so we cauterize a wound, in order to heal the body, not for the sake of giving pain to the affected limb.

If the disease is not stopped by these, so much as is betwixt the sound and corrupted parts, ought to be cauterized.

If it had taken a few centuries longer to recover from the cauterizing sun bombs, these things might still have been.

And both that which is cauterized, and that which is cut out, are equally incapable of being filled up without the manual operation.

We cauterized the wound with a hot iron, and at the same time compelled him to swallow huge drafts of raw whiskey; but to no purpose.

First, he would suck out all poison he possibly could; and, next, light a cigarette and with its live end proceed to cauterize the flesh.

That scratch upon her intellect must be cauterized before I shall believe it cured; and when the operation is complete, she may join the party here.

If even these do not relieve, the part must be cauterized carefully and cautiously; and not afterwards exposed to the same danger by any motion whatsoever.

If one has reason to believe he has been bitten by a mad dog, the wound should be cauterized as above, and a physician should be summoned at once.

If by these methods it grows no better, the place ought to be cauterized with a hot iron; the nerves that are in view being first covered.

A person having been bitten by a mad dog, or one suspected of rabies, the wound must first be made to bleed, then washed, and finally cauterized.

If medicines do no service, the ulcers will require to be cauterized: which, however, is not necessary in the lips, because it is more convenient to cut them out.

From the appearance of the stump which had been cauterized and was tied tightly with a piece of flexible grass, I judged that it had been bitten off.

If even these do not overcome it, the part must be cauterized, till no moisture flow from it; for whatever is sound, is dry when it is burnt.

He then applies to each, for the same length of time, a small object, such as a surgeon's cauterizing instrument, heated as nearly as possible to a constant temperature.

On the way he kicks my legs black-and-blue from the knees down; and I've got to have two or three bites on my thumb and hand cauterized.

The surgeon, who visited the prison every day, cauterized my mouth, but it continued to grow worse, until at last I could not eat the coarse bread.

When a tooth is to be cauterized, it is necessary to protect the healthy teeth with bits of cloth dipped in rose water or else with some kind of paste.

He summoned them together, heated a number of iron instruments before their eyes, and told them that the first one who had a fit should be cauterized down the spine.

And mercy without justice toward one's subordinate would be like ointment on a wound that ought to be cauterized: if ointment is applied without cauterizing it rots more than it heals.

The torment occasioned by these insects was such, that the men willingly submitted to the only remedy they knew of, and had the sores cauterized with hot iron.

The applications are best made over small surfaces at a time, and should be repeated at intervals of from two to three days until all suspected points have been at least once cauterized.

The dragon which had held sway upon that woodland clearing was slain at last, and the scars which he had left upon his victim were being cauterized by the fire.

He was never steady on his pins till after his first glass of consolation, a real remedy, the fire of which cauterized his bowels; but during the day his strength returned.

The sick wish to be cured, and, therefore, they willingly submit to be lanced, probed, cut, cauterized, and subjected to any and every pain and discomfort which medicine or surgery may suggest.

Is her moral state to be left out of account altogether, and are we to treat the most sensitive organ in her frame as if it was so much inert matter, whose great use was to be cauterized?

And the veins must be cauterized with small and blunt irons; till the flux of gum upon the eyes stop: for that is a sign the passages are blocked up, by which the humor was conveyed.