cauterize

If any bleeding occurs during the polyp removal, doctors can cauterize the wound to seal it, but this method creates a scar that may delay the healing, and result in additional complications.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024

"And then when things really come to a head, they try to cauterize the wound at the lowest level possible."

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2023

These can be left alone, but if you have a large one that bothers you, a dermatologist can remove it with a laser or surgically, then cauterize it to stop the bleeding.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2022

In trying to cauterize its own Spacey-sized wound, Sony Pictures is eager to preserve whatever awards and box-office hopes “All the Money in the World” might have.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2017

Privately, in another desperate attempt to cauterize the Watergate wound before it spread all the way to the president, Nixon had pressured his two closest aides to step down.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Following Dr. Graham on his medical rounds, they witness no heroic acts of surgery—he cauterizes a persistent sore on someone’s face; he presides at the death bed of a longtime patient and friend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Debate — philosophically and physiologically — makes us human, whereas dogma cauterizes our potential as a species.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2018

He cauterizes our indulgences in pity or piety: it is impossible, he reminds us, to feel pity for the self-pitying.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2017

The critic analyzes and cauterizes, coolly judging a film’s manipulation of its audience.

From Time ● Jan. 12, 2012

This cauterizes the disease and generally affects a cure.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young

The private-credit industry sprang up in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to fill lending gaps left by cauterized commercial banks.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

He had a blood vessel cauterized in his nose and began checking the air quality each morning to see if it was safe to go outside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2024

Once they found the ulcer, they cauterized it and gave him two pints of blood.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2023

A Swiss government-backed buyout of Credit Suisse by UBS has cauterized the immediate concern over European financial stability.

From Reuters ● Mar. 21, 2023

The wounds were cauterized with carbolic acid and sterilized with alcohol.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

On it went, the tugging, the cauterizing, the bodily liquids splashing to the floor, the banter and laughter amongst my operating team.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2023

Dr. Ronald Pelletier removed Jenkins’ kidney early Tuesday morning after more than an hour of snipping, cauterizing and clipping.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 4, 2017

Just as cauterizing a wound stops bleeding, they claim that lighting up hair makes it smoother-looking.

From Time ● Jul. 15, 2015

As they operate the remote controls, they no longer feel tissues when cutting, cauterizing and suturing.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2012

That wasn’t the beginning—this wasn’t where my anger started—but it was a cauterizing moment I would never forget.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi