noun
- the medical procedure of burning or destroying tissue using heat, chemicals, or electricity, typically to stop bleeding or remove abnormal growth
Usage: British spelling; American English uses 'cauterization'; medical/clinical term
Examples
- The surgeon performed cauterisation to seal the bleeding blood vessel.
- Cauterisation is often used in dermatology to remove warts and skin lesions.
- The patient underwent cauterisation to prevent infection after the wound was cleaned.
- Modern cauterisation techniques use laser technology for precision and minimal scarring.
- Cauterisation has been used in medicine for centuries to control hemorrhage.