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Cautery   Listen
noun
Cautery  n.  (pl. cauteries)  
1.
(Med.) A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.
2.
The iron of other agent in cauterizing.
Actual cautery, a substance or agent (as a hot iron) which cauterizes or sears by actual heat; or the burning so effected.
Potential cautery, a substance which cauterizes by chemical action; as, lunar caustic; also, the cauterizing produced by such substance.





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Words linked to "Cautery" :   searing iron, surgical procedure, cryocautery, surgical process, cauterant, cauterization, instrument, thermocautery, cauterize, operation, cauterisation, cauterise


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