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cauterise

cauterise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of cauterize.

Meaning of cauterize

Verb

cauterize (third-person singular simple present cauterizes, present participle cauterizing, simple past and past participle cauterized)

  1. To burn and hence seal open tissue using a heated article or caustic agent so as to stop bleeding or minimise the risk of infection.
    • […] 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...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...

Forms of cauterise

third-person singular presentcauterises
present participlecauterising
past participlecauterised
pastcauterised
alternative British English Oxford UScauterize

Words formed from cauterise

Questions about cauterise

What is cauterise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Cauterise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of cauterize.

Words near cauterise in the dictionary

  1. cauterant
  2. cauterants
  3. cauteries
  4. cauterisation
  5. cauterisations
  6. cauterise
  7. cauterised
  8. cauteriser
  9. cauterisers
  10. cauterises
  11. cauterising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cauterise (page history and authors); cauterize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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