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Meanings of cauterisation in English

Portuguese
cauterização
Catalan
cauterització
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The act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing.

        cauterização
        Usage of cauterisation in English
        1
        Manically focusing on this brutal affair is a deliberate, macho cauterisation of the agony of unrequited passion.
        The Guardian
        2
        Cauterisation is also used, as it is employed for wounds caused by native poisoned arrows.
        De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) / The Eight Decades of Peter Marty...
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for cauterisation
        Portuguese
        cauterização
        Cauterisation through the time