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/ˈkɔːtəɹaɪz/ · verb
To burn and hence seal open tissue using a heated article or caustic agent so as to stop bleeding or minimise the risk of infection..
[…] 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."
Use cauterize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cauterize means To burn and hence seal open tissue using a heated article or caustic agent so as to stop bleeding or minimise the risk of infection..
Common synonyms include burn.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] 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."
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