cauterized

Meaning

of Cauterize

Synonyms

Examples

He was meaner, more irritable, more impatient for the ultimate power which could only be his through the elimination of all rivals; and if he had ever had any scruples, any love at all for even a monkey, a book, or a sword-hilt, all this, and even this, had been cauterized and drowned away. Mervyn Peake

The great atheists, indeed are hypocrites; which are ever handling holy things, but without feeling; so as they must needs be cauterized in the end. Francis Bacon

Blood vessels may be clamped or cauterized to prevent bleeding, and retractors may be used to expose the site or keep the incision open. Source: Internet

In this scenario dissolved cocaine is soaked into a ball of cotton wool, which is placed in the nostril for the 10–15 minutes immediately before the procedure, thus performing the dual role of both numbing the area to be cauterized, and vasoconstriction. Source: Internet

When he wakes, with his ship falling back toward Earth, he discovers that his colleague had been right: the world below is destroyed, its entire surface scorched and cauterized by the runaway reaction. Source: Internet