bipolar cautery

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Cauterization using a high frequency electrical current passed through tissue from one electrode to another.

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His family described him as being bipolar and having long suffered from mental troubles.
Synagogue Slay: When Cops Have to Kill|Michael Daly|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In rambling posts, he called himself a loser, and wrote that he must be either bipolar or a psychopath.
School Shooters Love This Pickup Artist Website|Brandy Zadrozny|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Interestingly, the PLOS Medicine article noted, Otsuka makes the same claim for schizophrenia as it does for bipolar disorder.
Mother’s Little Anti-Psychotic Is Worth $6.9 Billion A Year|Jay Michaelson|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As in, we have no idea why this medication seems to help people with bipolar disorder.
Mother’s Little Anti-Psychotic Is Worth $6.9 Billion A Year|Jay Michaelson|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

A 33-year-old bipolar man walked into a store, lied about his mental health, and walked out with a deadly weapon.
Stop Me Before I Buy a Gun Again, Begs Bipolar Man|Eleanor Clift|June 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Monell, Bigelow, Massey, and Bartholow know electricity about the nose only as a cautery.
The Treatment of Hay Fever|George Frederick Laidlaw
If the spurting blood should cool the cautery, take another.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine|James J. Walsh
He brought in a cautery, a furnace, and other terrible instruments used then in medical practice.
Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study|Edward Hutton
Perhaps we needed a surgeon who would use knife and cautery.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.|Various
In cautery, the area where fire is to be placed is marked with ink in the shape of a myrtle leaf.
Drawings and Pharmacy in Al-Zahrawi's 10th-Century Surgical Treatise|Sami Hamarneh