monopolar cautery

[ mŏn′ə-pō′lər ]

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Cauterization using high frequency electrical current passed from a single electrode where cauterization occurs; the patient's body serves as a ground.

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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.
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In cautery, the area where fire is to be placed is marked with ink in the shape of a myrtle leaf.
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