The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cautery \Cau"ter*y\, n.; pl. Cauteries. [L. cauterium, Gr. ?. See Cauter.]
(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.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of cautery English)
Usage examples of "cauteries".
While one of his helpers sopped up the fluidsblood, brandy, water, serum, sweat and urinefrom the oilskin, Morre looked to the cauteries in the glowing brazier, selected one and wrapped a bit of wet hide around the shaft.
Suor Arcangela continues still to purge herself, and she does not feel terribly well after having had the two cauteries on her thighs.