0 past simple and past participle of cauterize
1 to burn an injury to stop bleeding and prevent infection
All vessels bleeding during surgery, even tiny ones, must be sutured or cauterized while fresh frozen plasma and platelets are obtained.
If nothing else was effective, the patient's head had to be cauterized, burning it in the shape of a cross (pp. 74 - 80).
The vortex veins and posterior ciliary vessels may be cauterized before dividing the nerve and removing the eye.
The procedure requires the patient to undergo general anesthesia; the tonsils are completely removed and the remaining tissue surface is cauterized.
Then the mucosa around the ostium is cauterized for microadenomas and removed completely for macroadenomas.
He had also got it cauterized without uttering a single word.
He then cauterized the stump with a red-hot poker from out of his forge.
Usually, the loop is cut and the ends cauterized or burned.
