What is "cauterizing"

Usage examples of "cauterizing".

Now, the afflicted part of my member—the spot that needed cauterizing, you understand—was on the top, about halfway along.

As Jack had been slashed deeply across the chest, as well as pierced through the forearm, there was much cauterizing to be done.

Her vision was reduced to a small circle that consisted of the wound she was cauterizing and the blade she was going to do it with.

Blayze's knife had severed them, the cauterizing iron had sealed them.

If this were a commercial operation rather than punishment and a warning, he would have some means of cauterizing the terrible wounds.

At the very least, poison meant enlarging the wounds and cauterizing them with red-hot steel.

Then, it was too fancy, too well-forged for the brute work of cauterizing a wound.

Though the medical droid had done a serviceable job of washing her body and disinfecting the wound before cauterizing it, the droid had no programming on what to do with hair.

Then, with a flash of smoke and a terrible stench, the bright energy blade cleaved through flesh and bone, cauterizing as it went.

It could rejoin severed tissue and knit it back together with tiny cauterizing “welds,” but if one didn’t know how to use it, it could easily do more harm than good.

Her dress was another four inches shorter and Sharpe realized he had been bandaged after the cauterizing iron had driven him in agony back to unconsciousness.