Cautery studies have shown that different results in eyespot size and color can result depending on the time in development at with the cauterizing damage is administered.
It involves cauterizing the growth plates of the pelvis, in other words, the part of the pelvis which would usually grow and spread in puppyhood, no longer does so.
Smith has wondered if this could represent the being cauterizing the wound left by the drilling procedure by the abducting entities.
The vasa deferentia are cut (sometimes a section may be removed altogether), separated, and then at least one side is sealed by ligating (suturing), cauterizing (electrocauterization), or clamping.
Addison drives off on the snowmobile, which he later abandons, but not before cauterizing his wound on the engine.
The best results are achieved by cauterizing the matrix with phenol.
He then continued with this approach to sealing wounds, rather than the largely accepted method of cauterizing wounds.
It is used as a cauterizing agent, for example to remove granulation tissue around a stoma.
