transcription, транскрипция: [ kɔ:təraɪz ]
( cauterizes, cauterizing, cauterized)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'cauterise'
If a doctor cauterizes a wound, he or she burns it with heat or with a chemical in order to close it up and prevent it from becoming infected.
He cauterized the wound with a piece of red-hot iron.