cauterize

English

Alternative forms

• cauterise (non-Oxford British English)

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 καίειν (kaíein, “to burn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːtəɹaɪz/
  • IPA^(key): [ˈkʰɔɾəɹaɪz], [ˈkʰɑɾəɹaɪz]

Verb

1. (American spelling, Canadian spelling, Oxford British English) To burn, sear, or freeze tissue using a hot iron, electric current or a caustic agent.
   • 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:

     […] 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."

Translations

burn tissue

• Bulgarian: обгарям (bg) (obgarjam)
• Catalan: cauteritzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燒灼／烧灼 (zh) (shāozhuó), 烧灼 (zh) (shāozhuó), 灼 (zh) (zhuó), (as in moxibustion) 灸 (zh) (jiǔ)

• Dutch: toebranden, dichtbranden, toevriezen, dichtvriezen (nl)
• Finnish: polttaa (fi); kauterisoida (fi) (medical term)
• French: cautériser (fr)
• German: kauterisieren (de)
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• Greek: καυτηριάζω (el) (kaftiriázo)
• Japanese: 焼灼する (しょうしゃくする, shōshaku suru)
• Kurdish: ,
• Norwegian: kauterisere (no)
• Portuguese: cauterizar
• Russian: прижига́ть (ru) impf (prižigátʹ), приже́чь (ru) pf (prižéčʹ)
• Spanish: cauterizar (es)
• Swedish: kauterisera (sv)