cauterizein a sentence
- cauterized the wound
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Big God howled like a hot wind... Then Small God (cozy and contained, private and limited) came away cauterized, laughing numbly at his own temerity.
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cauterized = a wound having been burned or seared to stop bleeding and prevent infection
- They were days fording that cauterized terrain.† (source)
- She removed the sleeve and cauterized a patch of lab-grown skin over the open wound.† (source)
- Because they left their initials burned into the cauterized synapses.† (source)
- He had lost nearly a third of his blood, but the hot rails had cauterized many of his arteries.† (source)
- Got to (rinse) cauterize.† (source)
- Could be a missed blood vessel that wasn't cauterized," the doctor says.† (source)
- The assisting surgeon suctioned away blood with a hand-held tube while I cauterized small vessels.† (source)
- The mate used a handsaw to square up the bone and cauterized the stump unevenly, so that the wound healed more slowly than it would have otherwise and the scar tissue left behind was thick and coarse.† (source)
- THEY SMOKED A JOINT and listened to music and after a while Nadia tried again to make Saeed have sex with her, not because she felt particularly sexy but because she wanted to cauterize the incident from outside the bank in her memory, and Saeed succeeded again in holding back, even as they pleasured each other, and he told her again that they should not have sex before they were married, that doing otherwise was against his beliefs, but it was not until he suggested she move in with…† (source)
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- The thin trench burned as if cauterized.† (source)
- At dawn on Monday they brought a woman who recited cauterizing prayers that were infallible for man and beast beside her bed, but Amaranta Ursula's passionate blood was insensible to any artifice that did not come from love.† (source)
- The explosion cauterized him right clean.† (source)
- He had sodomized one victim, then cauterized her.† (source)
- And around they go, working the wound until Barbara makes a move to cauterize it: "Either way, I'm coming for parents' weekend in October."† (source)
- I ask myself every day, 'What are you doing against Brotherhood?' and when I find it, I root it out, I burn it out like a man cauterizing a mad-dog bite.† (source)
- The code for the directive was Cautery, since the function of the bomb was to cauterize the infection—to burn it out, and thus prevent its spread.† (source)
- The cauterizing iron was ready, and she stayed to see if he would scream when it was applied.† (source)
- The wounds to the legs, stomach, and chest were deep and severe, quite possibly fatal were it not for the fact the bullets had remained where they had lodged, self-cauterized and continuously cleansed by the sea.† (source)
- After I cauterized the wound I was near death for a week, but then I recovered.† (source)
- Rawlins eyed balefully that cauterized terrain.† (source)
- If it does, we'll have to cauterize your shoulder.† (source)
- The President may cauterize the area with little domestic uproar and small loss of life.† (source)
- "Cauterize the wound," the queen said briskly.† (source)
- I assume it was well cauterized or it would stink more.† (source)
- Into the fire was placed the tip ofa dagger, which Roran knew Brigman would use to cauterize the wound in his back after removing the arrow, lest he bleed to death.† (source)
- He cringed inwardly as, for a second, the memory of his wounds being cauterized jumped to the forefront of his mind, and he again felt the touch of hot metal against his flesh.† (source)
- Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out.† (source)
- He had no intention of attending so much as a single session of the congress—he could imagine it well enough, new pamphlets by Bleuler and the elder Forel that he could much better digest at home, the paper by the American who cured dementia praecox by pulling out his patient's teeth or cauterizing their tonsils, the half-derisive respect with which this idea would be greeted, for no more reason than that America was such a rich and powerful country.† (source)
- So, then, inflammation, cauterization.† (source)
- On the way he kicks my legs black-and-blue from the knees down; and I've got to have two or three bites on my thumb and hand cauterized.† (source)
- Gottlieb swabbed its belly with a cotton wad soaked in lysol, slit it from belly to neck, and cauterized the heart with a red-hot spatula—the class quivered as they heard the searing of the flesh.† (source)
- Thenardier, masterful and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques Rousseau did even better!"† (source)
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"He ought to have it cauterised at once," said Mr. Huxter; "especially if it's at all inflamed."†
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unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it cauterized.
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