Usually means: Burn tissue to stop bleeding.
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  1. cauterise: Collins English Dictionary
  2. cauterise: Vocabulary.com
  3. cauterise: Wordnik
  4. cauterise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. cauterise: Wiktionary
  6. cauterise: Dictionary.com
  7. cauterise: Rhymezone
  8. cauterise: FreeDictionary.org
  9. cauterise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. cauterise: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cauterise: Legal dictionary

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  1. cauterise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cauterise: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. cauterise: Medical dictionary

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verb:  Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of cauterize. [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.]

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