Cauterise
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Cauterise is a verb meaning Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of cauterize.
Meaning
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of cauterize.
Example Sentences
Just when you think you are extricating yourself, just when you think you are cauterised and ready to leave, it resurfaces. Once you've been infected, you're never again completely free.
[…] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."
Word Forms
- cauterises
- cauterising
- cauterised
- cauterize
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include electrocauterise, calcine, thermosterilize, thermal, electrocoagulate, chemiclave.
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