cauterize
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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
Where life wounds, art and fellowship can heal, or at the very least, cauterize into the most expressive of scars.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2022
And there has to be a way to sort of underline that, to take this episode—if we’re lucky enough to be able to—and sort of cauterize it.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2020
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
Vocabulary lists containing cauterize
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