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Use cauterize in a sentence

Definition of cauterize:

  • (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart"
  • (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals

Sentence Examples:

My arm throbbed like a cauterized stump.

A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.

Cauterizing with red-hot irons is not infrequently employed.

"You neither lance nor cauterize an incipient tumor, do you, doctor?"

"Hardly an antiseptic, Doctor; wouldn't you say, rather, a cauterizing agent."

Cauterize the wound with caustics, a hot iron or a hot coal.

Well, I offered to cauterize it with the poker in the office stove.

All had cut and cauterized the enlargement, but without reducing its magnitude.

After the wart is removed, cauterize the cut surface with a hot iron.

Some dexterity is necessary to do this properly without cauterizing the lips or tongue.

Idiosyncrasy may not be cauterized, temperament must assert itself, or the personality dies.

A few surgeons still cauterize the apex of the cone until a perforation is produced.

I had no caustic with me, so I determined to cauterize it with boiling grease.

They were reproduced with extreme promptitude after they had been cut off or cauterized.

One brands with a hot iron, but cauterizes with some corrosive substance, as silver nitrate.

Scarcely a week but I have been obliged to parry some poisoned arrow or pluck it out and cauterize.

It is placed over the spot to be cauterized, and is then lighted from a red-hot coal.

Afterwards, the same method must be followed, as was laid down in cauterized ulcers of the nostrils.

Some operators prefer cauterizing the wound with a red-hot iron for the purpose of preventing hemorrhage.

No danger will result from cauterizing to a depth of three-fourths of an inch in the average case.

When they are broad and flattened, they may be dissected out, and the wound cauterized if necessary.

In this dangerous Indian climate, where everything grows putrid, they are frequently constrained to cauterize the sores.

A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

After this the wound should be dilated and thoroughly cauterized to its depths with a hot iron.

His passion for Dorothea had been effectually cauterized; he thought of her now without either resentment or desire.

He can take nothing away, but only cauterize and neutralize, he says, so why not let him try?

Hence, she was prevented from sitting down; and the head was cauterized, to obtain revulsion by the pain.

All looked at him as he stood on his cauterized feet, stretching his arms, lean and sun-cured, upward in the firelight.

This rule is as universal as the former, when a gangrened part is cut away, that the wound must be cauterized.

There was a fire in the room, and before proceeding further, I cauterized that prick with the end of a red-hot poker.

Cauterizing the bite might do me good if I'd been bitten by a rabid dog, but I don't have the nerve to do it.

And this is the reason: that he fears to lose his dignity, and, so as not to excite annoyance, he goes about cloaking and hiding men's faults, spreading ointment over a wound at the time when it ought to be cauterized.

In blow after blow she lost her mother, her husband, her children; she went through such violent temptations to impurity that she was obliged to seize on lighted coals and cauterize the plague of her senses with fire.

The wound should at once be thoroughly opened with a knife to the very bottom, under ether, by a surgeon, and not only every particle of foreign matter removed, but all the surrounding tissue should be cut out or cauterized.

This I concluded to try, by placing a large dispersing electrode on the small of her back, and the other electrode, properly prepared, so that it did not burn or cauterize, was introduced into the vagina, against the posterior aspect of the uterus.