cauterizing
Sealing with heat
Cauterizing is burning tissue to close a wound, stop bleeding, or destroy damaged or infected flesh.
The technique uses heated instruments, electric current, or chemicals.
Surgeons cauterize blood vessels during operations; in emergencies, people have cauterized wounds with heated metal.
Figuratively, cauterizing suggests a painful but necessary remedy: The scandal cauterized the organization's complacency.
Damage by heat
- searBurn the outside
- heatTransferred thermal energy
- ironElement twenty-six
- brandingCreating distinctive identity
tissue · flame · hot · scorch · charring · poker · ember · red-hot
Coiled, or an injury
- bleedingBlood loss from injury
- hemostasisProcess that stops bleeding
- tissueDisposable soft paper
- burnDamage by heat
seal · surgical · coagulation · incision · vessel · scalpel · hemorrhage · sterile
AgNO₃ crystalline salt
- acidLow-pH chemical compound
- astringentTissue-contracting agent
- causticChemically burning; bitterly mocking
- corrosiveDestroys by chemical action
stick · application · wart · lesion · granulation · compound · reaction · destruction
Forcible elimination of unwanted
- eliminatingRemoving from consideration
- eradicatingRemoving completely and permanently
- cleansingRemoving dirt or toxins
- severingCutting apart completely
cutting · removing · suppressing · destroying · painful · drastic · radical · harsh
burn
Damage by heat
branding · tissue · flame · hot · scorch · charring · poker · ember · red-hot · metal
wound
Coiled, or an injury
- bleedingBlood loss from injury
- hemostasisProcess that stops bleeding
- tissueDisposable soft paper
burn · seal · surgical · coagulation · incision · vessel · scalpel · hemorrhage · sterile · procedure
silver nitrate
AgNO₃ crystalline salt
- acidLow-pH chemical compound
- astringentTissue-contracting agent
- causticChemically burning; bitterly mocking
corrosive · stick · application · wart · lesion · granulation · compound · reaction · destruction · necrosis
purging
Forcible elimination of unwanted
- eliminatingRemoving from consideration
- eradicatingRemoving completely and permanently
- cleansingRemoving dirt or toxins
severing · cutting · removing · suppressing · destroying · painful · drastic · radical · harsh · necessary
cauterizingfreezing
Extremely cold
cooling · cryotherapy · icing · chilling · refrigerating
cauterizingregenerating
Forming anew after loss
healing · preserving · nurturing · soothing · restoring
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