| 单词 | cauterize |
| 释义 | cauterize (once / 24122 pages) v To cauterize is to seal off a wound or incision by burning it or freezing it, usually with a hot iron, electricity, or chemicals. Metaphorically, cauterize means to make less sensitive to feelings and emotions. Cauterize is usually a medical term. In surgery, using an electrical tool to cauterize the incision seals off blood vessels, resulting in a cleaner operation that heals more easily. Extreme cold, electricity, and chemicals are also used outside the body cauterize, or "burn off," warts and vessels that cause nosebleeds. WORD FAMILYcauterize: cauterization, cauterized, cauterizes, cauterizing+/cauterise: cauterisation, cauterised, cauterises, cauterising/cauterization: cauterizations/cautery: cauteries, cauterise, cauterize USAGE EXAMPLESThese moments have none of the clean, cauterized efficiency that characterizes most scenes of large-scale warfare. Los Angeles Times(Nov 01, 2016) “Goal would be to cauterize this just enough so it plays out over the weekend and dies in the short term.” Washington Post(Oct 10, 2016) This process involved minute tugs and tears, punctuated by pauses to cauterize minor bleeds. The New Yorker(Sep 19, 2016) 1v burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent The surgeon cauterized the wart Syn|Hyper burn, cauterise care for, treat provide treatment for 2v make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals Syn|Hyper callous, cauterise harden, indurate, inure cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate |
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