devitalize

/dɪvˈaɪtəlˌaɪz/

/dɪvˈaɪɾəlˌaɪz/

[verb]

to devitalize

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

sap of life or energy

synonyms : devitalise

antonyms : vitalize

Examples

1. We made the hard choice of ligating the femoral artery higher in the groin, which had the risk of possibly devitalizing some of the stump tissue.

2. And Dr. Houdek and myself have been working a lot with taking these nerves that normally would be left to scar into the wound bed and cause a source of pain and we're now reconnecting those to devitalized muscle.

3. So the importance of non-crushing is that we don't want the cells that make up that particular part of the organ to be crushed or killed or devitalized because you're closing the clamp on it.