Sentences with cauterize
cau·ter·ize
C c - He cauterized the wound with a piece of red-hot iron. [VERB noun]
- [ …] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd. "
- The doctors cauterized the wound.
- They then apply radiofrequency energy to cauterize -- or burn off -- small pieces of abnormal tissue triggering the irregular heartbeat.
- In BRIT, also use cauterise