e·lec·tro·cau·ter·y 
(ĭ-lĕk′trō-kôtə-rē)
(ĭ-lĕk′trō-kôtə-rē)n. pl. e·lec·tro·cau·ter·ies
1. A cautery heated by an electric current.
2. The cauterization of tissue by such an instrument.
- partial pressure
- partial seizure
- partial tone
- partible
- participance
- participant
- participate
- participation
- participational
- participative
- participator
- participatory
- participial
- participially
- participle
- particle
- particle accelerator
- particle beam
- particleboard
- particle board
- particle decay
- particle physics
- parti-colored
- particular
- particularism