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cautery   (TTS Sound)

The noun cautery has 2 senses

• cautery, cauterant -- (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)


• cautery, cauterization, cauterisation -- (the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing)