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cautery|ˈkɔːtərɪ|
[ad. L. cautērium branding-iron, cautery, ad. Gr. καυτήριον branding-iron: see cauter.]
1. A heated metallic instrument used for burning or searing organic tissue; also a caustic drug or medicine for the same purpose. The former is called an actual, the latter a potential, cautery.
1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg., Ulcers 141 Let the bone be bored through, with a quadrate pointed cauterie. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 312/1 A little knobbe or tumor, which then with a glowing siluer Cauterye we must Cauterise. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physic 326 Let the Chirurgion hold a great actual Cautery in his hand. 1689Moyle Sea Chyrurg. ii. i. 26 Apply Buttons armed with..your Potential Cautry. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xlvi, Bramwell prescribed the actual cautery, and put the poker in the fire. 1878Tennyson Q. Mary iii. iv. 123 The mad bite Must have the cautery. 1881Syd. Soc. Lex. s.v., Practically the term cautery is confined to the actual; a heated metallic instrument.
2. The operation of cauterizing, the application of a cauterizing agent. [cf. abst. ns. in ]
1575Turberv. Falconrie 282 Cawterie to be bestowed upon hawkes. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 333 The potential cautery is done by applying unto the grieved place some medicine corrosive, putrifactive, or caustick. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iv. iii. (1676) 238/1 Cauteries or searings with hot yrons. 1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 19 To consume the Excrescence..both by Potential and Actual Cautery. 1861Reade Cloister & H. I. 343 To lay out blood and money, in flebotomy and cautery.
fig.a1834Coleridge, Who..With actual cautery staunch'd the Church's wounds. 1853Card. Wiseman Ess. III. 5 To apply this actual cautery to the body of the Spanish Church.
†3. An eschar made by cauterizing. [So Gr.]
1651N. Biggs New Disp. ⁋239 Cauteries or permanent wounds are thought to be..related to it. |