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cauterise

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Verb1.cauterise - burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart"
cauterize, burn
care for, treat - provide treatment for; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics"
2.cauterise - make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
callous, cauterize
inure, indurate, harden - cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"
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There is no logic that permits red-hot pokers to be thrust down horses' throats to cauterise their soft palates to improve their performance, or permits red-hot pins to be stuck into their tendons (admittedly anaesthetised) to improve their performance, but does not permit a drug like tranexamic acid to ameliorate bleeding.
Pressing my argument; LETTERS by The Racing Post (London, England)
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Unattached operating theatres by Potgieter, Andre "JA"; Grobler, Stephen / CME: Your SA Journal of CPD
Doctors had to cauterise blood vessels in his nostril to stem the flow while his dad, Stephen Vallily, of Grove Hill, anxiously hoped it was not a flare-up of the disease.
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