01 n. A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.
pl.
Cauteries ((#))
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1.
A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.(Med.)
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2.
The iron of other agent in cauterizing.
Phrases & compounds
Actual cautery —
a substance or agent (as a hot iron) which cauterizes or sears by actual heat; or the burning so effected.
Potential cautery —
a substance which cauterizes by chemical action; as, lunar caustic; also, the cauterizing produced by such substance.