"C" ME
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-07-10_J_11.jpg" target="_blank">Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a lab at the University of Mississippi.</a>)  Sound waves are used to heat and seal blood vessels in a 21st century version of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-07-10_J_11a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> process from the Latin for "branding iron"'
cauterizing