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cauterizationIn medicine, the use of special instruments to burn or fuse small areas of body tissue to destroy dead cells, prevent the spread of infection, or seal tiny blood vessels to minimize blood loss during surgery. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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When we in the Western world use the word tradition, we tend to mean carving pumpkins, not flesh, and lighting candles, not cauterizing unsterile wounds. The repeated images and representations of North Korea as evil and strange, spurred on in part by an active lobbying campaign by the Sukuukai, fostered a sense of unity based on a common sense of indignation and fear, cauterizing debate on other complex issues related to Japan-North Korea relations. Other researchers are pursuing HIFU as a method for cauterizing hemorrhaging internal wounds (SN: 1/6/01, p. |
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