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Cautery

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cau=ter=y

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Cautery has 2 senses

cautery(n = noun.artifact) cauterant - an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it; Array

has particulars: cryocautery, searing iron

is a kind of instrument

Derived forms verb cauterise₁, verb cauterize₁

cautery(n = noun.act) cauterisation, cauterization - the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing; Array

is a kind of operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process

has particulars: cryocautery, thermocautery

Derived forms verb cauterise₁, verb cauterize₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Cautery, n. [L. cauterium, Gr. . See Cauter.].

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. [1913 Webster]
The iron of other agent in cauterizing. [1913 Webster]

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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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Cautery, n. (pl. -ies) Med.
1 an instrument or caustic for cauterizing.
2 the operation of cauterizing.

Etymology

L cauterium f. Gk kauterion: see CAUTERIZE

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ROGET THESAURUS

Cautery

Calefaction

N calefaction, increase of temperature, heating, calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction, melting, fusion, liquefaction, burning, ambustion, combustion, incension, accension, concremation, cremation, scorification, cautery, cauterization, ustulation, calcination, cracking, refining, incineration, cineration, carbonization, cupellation, ignition, inflammation, adustion, flagration, deflagration, conflagration, empyrosis, incendiarism, arson, auto dafe, boiling, coction, ebullition, estuation, elixation, decoction, ebullioscope, geyser, distillation (vaporization), furnace, blanket, flannel, fur, wadding, clothing, still, refinery, fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower, match, incendiary, petroleuse, cauterizer, caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa, acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia, catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid, radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium, sunstroke, coup de soleil, insolation, pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china, earthenware, stoneware, pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker, cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot, slag, coke, carbon, charcoal, wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil, gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel), wax, paraffin, residue, tar, inflammability, combustibility, diathermancy, transcalency, conduction, convection, radiation, radiant heat, heat conductivity, conductivity, thermal expansion, coefficient of expansion, heated, molten, sodden, r_echauff_e, heating, adust, inflammable, combustible, diathermal, diathermanous, burnt, volcanic, radioactive.

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