cauterize

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.

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.

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

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

Where life wounds, art and fellowship can heal, or at the very least, cauterize into the most expressive of scars.