cautery (redirected from electric cautery)

cau·ter·y  (kôt-r)

n. pl. cau·ter·ies

1. An agent or instrument used to destroy abnormal tissue by burning, searing, or scarring, including caustic substances, electric currents, lasers, and very hot or very cold instruments.

2. The act or process of cauterizing.

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[Middle English cauterie, from Latin cautrium, branding iron, cautery, from Greek kautrion, from kaiein, kau-, to burn.]

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cautery  (kôt-r)

An agent or instrument used to destroy tissue, as in surgery, by burning, searing, cutting, or scarring, including caustic substances, electric currents, and lasers.

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cautery

the act of cauterization, or burning away of dead tissue.

See also: Surgery

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cautery - 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 cauterant cryocautery - an instrument for destroying tissue by freezing it instrument - a device that requires skill for proper use searing iron - a hot iron used to destroy tissue
	2.	cautery - the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing cauterisation, cauterization surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery" cryocautery - application of a substance that destroys tissue by freezing it thermocautery - cautery (destruction of tissue) by heat