cautery - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
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From Latin cauterium (“branding iron”).
cautery (usually uncountable, plural cauteries)
- (surgery) The use of either extreme heat or extreme cold to either cut or seal body tissue.
- 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 129:
Modern doctors nod benignly at some of the remedies and principles in Bald's Leechbook, but none has a good word to say for bloodletting - nor for cautery, the other medieval method of balancing the humours.
- 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 129:
- (surgery) A device used for cutting or sealing body tissue. (clarification of this definition is needed)
process of cutting or sealing body tissue with heat or cold
- Czech: kauterizace f
- French: cautérisation (fr) f
- Russian: прижига́ние (ru) n (prižigánije)
- Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: داغ (dag, dağ)
device used for cutting or sealing body tissue
Czech: kauter m