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Webster 1913 Edition

Cautery

Cau′ter-y

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Cauteries
(#)
.
[L.
cauterium
, Gr. [GREEK]. 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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cautery

CAUTERY

,
Noun.
A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, by a hot iron or by caustic medicines that burn, corrode or destroy any solid part of an animal body. The burning by a hot iron is called actual cautery; that by caustic medicines, potential cautery.

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