cauterize

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɔːtəɹaɪz/|/ˈkoːtəɹɑjz/    美 /ˈkoːtəɹɑez/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. 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."

词形变化

cauterizes present,singular,third-person cauterizing participle,present cauterized participle,past cauterized past cauterise alternative

词源

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”).
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