The word "cauterize" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use "cauterize" to describe a medical procedure that involves using heat, a laser, or an electric current to burn or seal a wound or part of the body, usually to stop or prevent bleeding. For example, "The doctor had to cauterize the wound to stop the bleeding."
Bleeding may also be controlled by electrocautery, the use of an instrument heated with an electric current to cauterize, or burn, vessel tissue.
He has had an uncomfortably close relationship with drugs and alcohol, and his first two albums often turned his anger inward, in an attempt to drain emotional abscesses and cauterize unseen wounds.
Pereda washed the wound, which he proceeded to cauterize with a knife heated until the blade was red-hot, then made a dressing with another handkerchief, held in place with a makeshift bandage: one of his old shirts, which he soaked in aguardiente, what little was left, more as a ritual than as a sanitary measure, but it couldn't do any harm.
When he finally allowed himself to be examined, the doctor decided to cauterize Francis's face from the jaw to the temple, to stop the discharge from his eyes.
If he does get cut, Leon uses a candle to cauterize the skin.
So why don't I cauterize this at the outset, and say, 'How 'bout those Yankees?' Because you can practice, as you're walking up".
As Heracles severed each mortal head, Iolaus was set to the task of cauterizing the fresh wounds so that no new heads would emerge.
The two free ends of the vas deferens are then usually cauterized to coagulate the blood and seal off the tubes.
Type 4 FGC may involve nicking, piercing, scraping, or cauterizing the genitalia, placing caustic substances in the vagina, or other practices.
A laser beam cauterizes the cuts, stopping bleeding in blood-rich tissues such as the female reproductive tract or the gums.
Irving flicked to this page, and, he says, "it is August 1944 and he is treating Hitler – cauterizing his eardrum – and he says, 'Mein Furher you realize that you have the same illness now in your inner ear that the Kaiser had?' Hitler said 'Yes that is true, how did you know that?' And Geesing said he had read it in the biography of the Kaiser written by an Englishman, J D Chamier".
