Meaning & use
Cauteries
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Instruments or substances used to burn or sear tissue, especially to stop bleeding or destroy abnormal cells; also the act of such treatment.
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The surgical kit included several cauteries of different sizes.
Ancient physicians relied on hot-iron cauteries long before modern surgical tools existed.
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Plural of "cautery," from Greek "kauterion" (branding iron), related to "caustic" and "cauterize."
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cautery instrumentssearing tools
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