cautery
Americannoun
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cauteries
plural
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an escharotic substance, electric current, or hot iron used to destroy tissue.
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the process of destroying tissue with a cautery.
noun
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the coagulation of blood or destruction of body tissue by cauterizing
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Also called: cauterant. an instrument or chemical agent for cauterizing
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Etymology
Origin of cautery
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin cautērium < Greek kautḗrion, equivalent to kautḗr branding iron ( see cauterize) + -ion diminutive suffix
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The procedure is said to be faster than other ablation techniques like cautery or freezing, and less likely to damage the esophagus, which lies next to the atrium.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
As for acupuncture and cautery, six clinics are giving wholesale treatments for more than 200 maladies, including nervous breakdown, chronic rheumatism, headaches, facial paralysis, high blood pressure and menstrual disorders.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cautery reaches places which the scalpel cannot touch.*
From Time Magazine Archive
But President-elect Allen Buckner Kanavel, Chicago, pointed out that coagulation caused by the cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Armando Palacio Vald?s
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
The wound in the shoulder is miraculously healing, without either blood-letting or cauteries.
From To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston
Guy de Chauliac's Cauteries:--5, 6, 7, 8, cauteries called from their shapes: knife, sword, olive, date kernel; 9, cautery with protective nail to be inserted cold; 10, protective plate for cauteries.
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh
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 Armando Palacio Vald?s
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