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cauterise

vb. To burn, sear, or freeze tissue using a hot iron, electric current or a caustic agent.

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cauterise
  1. v. burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart" [syn: cauterize, burn]

  2. make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals [syn: callous, cauterize]

Usage examples of "cauterise".

Bearing this fact in mind, it should be observed that the length of the curved part of the radicle, which had become deflected from the cauterised side in the course of 8 h.

The bending from the cauterised side occurred much slower than in the previously described species, and it will perhaps be worth while to give our trials in detail.

After one day slight deflection, but the cauterised mark was so faint that the same side was again touched with caustic.

After three days doubtfully, but after four days certainly deflected from the cauterised side.

The tips of 5 radicles were cauterised with nitrate of silver, and about 1 mm.

Of 7 not cauterised radicles observed at the same time, all had come into contact with the sieve.

The tips of 15 radicles were cauterised with nitrate of silver, and they grew as well as those above described with greased tips.

Of the 54 cauterised radicles one case was doubtful, 25 curved themselves from the light in the normal manner, and 28, or more than half, were not in the least apheliotropic.

It is probable that if the tips had been cauterised for the length of a whole millimeter, all signs of apheliotropism would have disappeared.

After an interval of three or four days the contrast in appearance between the cauterised and control specimens was wonderfully great.

Nineteen young radicles with cauterised tips were extended at different times horizontally over water.

A section of one of the cauterised tips showed that the blackened part was 0.

When the caustic was applied to the three cauterised specimens, it was held quite motionless during 5 seconds, and the result was that the black marks were extremely minute.

It would be superfluous to describe in detail the behaviour of the 10 remaining cauterised radicles.

The cauterised radicles increased greatly in length, but the measurements are not worth giving.