Cautery
Cautery , noun
[Latin cauterium, Greek {not transcribed}. See Cauter.]
1.
(Medicine) 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.
Collocations (2)
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.