cauteries
- plural of cautery.
Example Sentences
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To day surgeons use scalpels and electric cauteries to excise cancers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Doctors have tried to help similar patients with cauteries and radium, but always unsuccessfully, and Mrs. Ribicoff refused these treatments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Physic and philosophy are cultivated among the Indians, and the Chinese have some skill in medicine; but that almost entirely consists in the art of applying hot irons or cauteries.
These doubts which constantly assaulted him were a genuine cautery for his passion, painful and cruel, like all cauteries, but very salutary in their effects.
From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
The wound in the shoulder is miraculously healing, without either blood-letting or cauteries.
From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary
