- 1燒灼；電燒（醫院常說「電燒」）
When a doctor cauterizes a wound or a growth, they burn a small part of the body on purpose — with hot metal, a laser, or a strong chemical — usually to stop bleeding or to take the growth away. It is a controlled burn, not an accident and not a punishment, though actually it does hurt, and older medicine did it with a real hot iron. You will meet the word in hospitals, science class, and history or crime stories. American spelling is cauterize; British often cauterise. People sometimes stretch it: to “cauterize” a problem at work means cut it out fast and . That is metaphor, not medicine.
組成From Middle French cauteriser, from Late Latin cauterizō (“to burn with a hot iron”), from Ancient Greek καυτηριάζω (kautēriázō, “to brand”), from καυτήρ (kautḗr, “branding iron”), from καίω (kaíō, “to burn”).
同家族的字
- cauterythe tool, or the act of burning in this medical way — same Greek ‘branding iron’ word
- causticfrom the same Greek root for ‘burn’: a caustic chemical burns tissue, and a caustic remark ‘burns’ too
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cauterizeverb/ˈkɔːtəɹaɪz/
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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 corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."
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