🔥 To burn tissue 🧊 To numb emotions

to cauterize

14 8.4

To use heat, electricity, or chemicals to burn tissue so it stops bleeding and prevents infection

verb
/ˈkɔːtəˌraɪz/

: cauterizar

To stop the bleeding, the doctor will cauterize the wound with a heated instrument.

Like they slice that shit off and then they cauterized it with a fucking little zapper.

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Examples

I'm gonna have to cauterize this.

Things (1989)
We're going to have to cauterize your wounds.

The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)
- We have to cauterize the open wound.

Lycan Colony (2006)
The heat will cauterize and seal the wound.

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
I'm gonna cauterize the wound.

Racing Daylight (2007)
We've got to cauterize the site.

Dreamcatcher (2003)
Finally, he went to the hospital and they cauterized it.

Fiction book (2001)
This stuff cauterizes the wound and it can help stop the bleed.

Shawn Ryan Show
Later was when Hat explained to Mrs. Shefferd about cauterizing a wound to stop the bleeding.

Fiction book (1998)
The doctor cauterized, stitched, and bandaged the wound, and gave Milton a tetanus shot.

Fiction book (1990)

How Much

to amputate

Specialized

48 7.2

to ablate

Specialized

1 9.9

to remove

∞ 1.5

to cauterize

14 8.4

Surface Forms

cauterize infinitive

cauterized past

cauterized past participle

cauterizing present participle

cauterizes third person singular

Morphology

cauterize = cautery (transparent) = cauter + ize

The verb is formed by attaching the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' to the medical base 'cautery', yielding the literal sense 'to burn/sear', which is a direct morphological derivation.

Etymology

Cauterize comes from an old Greek word kauter meaning 'to burn', and it shares the same root as caustic. In medicine the idea is simple: to cauterize a wound is to burn it with heat or a tool so the bleeding stops and infection is less likely, which is why the word means burning tissue to heal.