Crossword clues for cautery
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from Latin cauterium "branding iron," from Greek kauterion (see cauterize).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medical English) The process of using either extreme heat or extreme cold to either cut or seal body tissue. 2 (context medical English) A device used for cutting or sealing body tissue.
WordNet
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 [syn: cauterant]
the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing [syn: cauterization, cauterisation]
Usage examples of "cautery".
Medpost was a fascination with the sharps, and once Picardy found her playing tunes with them, completely absorbed in the sounds they made and oblivious to the hole the cautery beam was burning in the wall as it hummed its enchanting deep bass note.
Morre lifted the pale-pink-glowing cautery from its nest of coals, blew on it once to remove any bits of ash, took careful aim, then laid it firmly upon the entry wound, holding it while he counted slowly to five.
Morre returned the cautery to the brazier and examined his handiwork, critically, while Don Caspar relaxed, sobbing despite himself, and a lancer cleaned his buttocks and legs of what had come when his anal sphincter failed.
Their senses in some scorching cautery of battle Now long since ironed, Can laugh among the dying, unconcerned.
I had done it the way one lets the cautery be put to a bloody wound: because one must.
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.
These Welsh mothers and grandmothers won't allow cautery at any price.
I had nothing for treating her except the crude bandages I'd already fashioned out of burnouses, cautery, and a bota of Vashni liquor, which had been put into our pouches without either of us being aware of it.
So I wired to London for Morgan, and, between him and Johnson, they have been opening my trachea, and singeing my inside with chromic acid and the cautery.
He described a technique for using a ruby laser that emitted a beam, smaller in diameter than a needle tip, as a surgical knife and cautery combined.