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cautery
  1. (medicine) The process of using either extreme heat or extreme cold to either cut or seal body tissue.
  2. (medicine) A device used for cutting or sealing body tissue.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Although a cautery usually is not needed, the nurse places an electrosurgical unit dispersive pad on the patient's thigh.”
      “The bulb on the end of this cautery was heated and applied to tissue to treat a variety of dental ills, including tooth decay and gumboils.”
      “Cryosurgery or curettage and cautery is not recommended for recurrent tumours.”
cauterization
  1. The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.
  2. Examples:
    1. “On rare occasions, a nose bleed may require cauterization, which is done by the ENT surgeons.”
      “As the gangrene extends, the cauterization is to be repeated twice daily or even more frequently.”
      “A thread from the stole of the ancient saint was said to have had the power to cure hydrophobia, if aided by cauterization.”
cauter
  1. A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Knutson KL, Van Cauter E, Rathouz P, Yan LL, Hulley SB, Liu K, et al.”
cauterism
  1. (archaic) The use or application of a caustic; cautery.
cauterisation
  1. Alternative form of cauterization
  2. Examples:
    1. “These vibrations cut and coagulate tissue simultaneously at far lower temperatures than cauterisation, thus reducing lateral thermal tissue damage.”
      “It had been such a clean shot that the wound immediately went through the process of cauterisation.”
      “He spent Thursday evening in an ENT hospital for precautionary reasons after undergoing a nasal cauterisation.”
cauteriser
  1. Alternative spelling of cauterizer
cauterizer
  1. One who, or that which, cauterizes.
cauterant
  1. Any cauterizing substance.
cauterizations
  1. plural of cauterization
cauterisations
  1. plural of cauterisation
cauterizers
  1. plural of cauterizer
cauterisers
  1. plural of cauteriser
cauterants
  1. plural of cauterant
cauterisms
  1. plural of cauterism
cauteries
  1. plural of cautery
  2. Examples:
    1. “There are other things on the drawing board such as using radio surgical instruments and thermal instruments as cauteries that should produce very good results.”
      “Bovie continues the ongoing development of battery operated cauteries, vessel sealing instruments and high-powered generators for operating room use.”
      “Bovie's medical products include a range of devices, including electrosurgical generators and accessories, cauteries, medical lighting, nerve locators and other products.”
cauters
  1. plural of cauter
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