The act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing.
An instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it.
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Examples for "cauterization "
Examples for "cauterization "
1 No good comes from the use of blistering ointments immediately after cauterization .
2 A 48-year-old woman underwent radiofrequency cauterization as a treatment for epistaxis.
3 Iron and fire were in the code: the law practised the cauterization of vagrancy.
4 With a slight cauterization I will make it all disappear.
5 Here, the authors report the first case of a nasal septal abscess that developed after cauterization .
1 Manically focusing on this brutal affair is a deliberate, macho cauterisation of the agony of unrequited passion.
2 Cauterisation is also used, as it is employed for wounds caused by native poisoned arrows.
1 Meantime for some wounds, at any rate, time had brought swift cautery !
2 They bled him with a penknife, and heated the iron for the cautery .
3 The cautery is to be used with a transformer, or a storage battery.
4 These Welsh mothers and grandmothers won't allow cautery at any price.
5 Here the beneficial action of the cautery and the blister may be largely problematical.
6 A laryngeal curette, cautery electrodes, cautery handle, and laryngeal knife are illustrated in Fig.
7 He doubts and questions the salutary but critical terrors of the cautery and the knife.
8 Surgery was not very highly developed, but the knife and actual cautery were freely used.
9 It is desirable to apply the cautery , but not to burn up the whole body.
10 To scar or burn with a caustic or cautery .
11 His bleeding was staunched by a team of assistants using the modern technique of electrical cautery .
12 In sub-acute cases, the entire region surrounding the pastern is blistered or the actual cautery is used.
13 But why would you apply the cautery ?
14 The hemorrhage in one case was arrested by the tampon, and in the other by the Pacquelin cautery .
15 The actual cautery may be beneficially employed for the relief of sub-horny quittor in at least two ways.
16 Fire is the Arabs' vade mecum; the actual cautery is deeply respected, and is supposed to be infallible.
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