cauterize en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɔːtəɹaɪz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- [ˈkʰɔɾəɹaɪz] without the cot–caught merger
- /ˈkoːtəɹɑjz/ (British, Southern, Standard)
- [ˈkʰɑɾəɹaɪz] (cot-caught-merger)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɔːtəɾaɪz/ (Wales)
- /ˈkoːtəɹɑez/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- /ˈkɔtəɹaɪz/ without the cot–caught merger
- /ˈkɔtəɾaɪz/ (Scotland)
- /ˈkɑtəɹaɪz/ (cot-caught-merger)
Etymology
From Middle French cauteriser, from Late Latin cauterizō (“to burn with a hot iron”), from Ancient Greek καυτηριάζω (kautēriázō, “to brand”), from καυτήρ (kautḗr, “branding iron”), from καίω (kaíō, “to burn”).
Meanings
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To burn and hence seal open tissue using a heated article or caustic agent so as to stop bleeding or minimise the risk of infection.
[…] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."
1732, George Smith, Institutiones Chirurgicæ: or, Principles of Surgery, … To which is Annexed, a Chirurgical Dispensatory, …, London: Printed [by William Bowyer] for Henry Lintot, at the Cross-Keys against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, →OCLC, page 254:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cauterizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| cauterized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| cauterized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| cauterizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| cauterise | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
recauterize · uncauterized · electrocauterize · cauterization · cauterizer
Translations (35)
de kauterisieren (burn tissue) · es cauterizar (burn tissue) · ga poncloisc (burn tissue) · hu kiéget (burn tissue) · ca cauteritzar (burn tissue) · fi kauterisoida (burn tissue) · no kauterisere (burn tissue) · kmr dax dan (burn tissue) · el καυτηριάζω (burn tissue) · kmr kewandin (burn tissue) · nl toevriezen (burn tissue) · cs kauterizovat (burn tissue) · cmn 灼 (burn tissue) · hu kauterizál (burn tissue) · fr cautériser (burn tissue) · ru прижига́ть (burn tissue) · cmn 燒灼 /烧灼 (burn tissue) · pt cauterizar (burn tissue) · cs vypálit (burn tissue) · mn түлэх (burn tissue) · fi polttaa (burn tissue) · pl kauteryzować (burn tissue) · pl przyżegać (burn tissue) · ja 焼灼する (burn tissue) · sv kauterisera (burn tissue) · sw pisha (burn tissue) · ga loisc (burn tissue) · nl dichtvriezen (burn tissue) · cmn 灸 (burn tissue) · bg обгарям (burn tissue) · ang bærnan (burn tissue) · ota داغلامق (burn tissue) · nl dichtbranden (burn tissue) · nl toebranden (burn tissue) · ru приже́чь (burn tissue)