Usually means: Burns tissue to stop bleeding.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. cauterizes: Merriam-Webster
  2. cauterizes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cauterizes: Vocabulary.com
  4. cauterizes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. cauterizes: Wiktionary
  6. cauterizes: Dictionary.com
  7. cauterizes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cauterizes: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cauterizes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. cauterizes: Medical dictionary

(Note: See cauterize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cauterize)

verb:  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.
▸ Also see cauterize


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