cautery : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cautery	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for cautery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cautery n an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it Synonym(s): cautery, cauterant the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing Synonym(s): cautery, cauterization, cauterisation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cautery \Cau"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Cauteries}. [L. cauterium, Gr. [?]. See {Cauter}.] 1. (Med.) 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. 2. The iron of other agent in cauterizing. {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.