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cauteriser

cauteriser is the alternative spelling of cauterizer.

Meaning of cauterizer

Noun

cauterizer (plural cauterizers)

  1. One who, or that which, cauterizes.
    • Various wands and clippers and cauterizers went into other little holes, and while watching the screens, the two doctors moved them around as if working joysticks on a video game.2007 April 3, Charles Mcgrath, “Atul Gawande Rocks in the O.R.”, in New York Times

Forms of cauteriser

pluralcauterisers

Origin of cauteriser

From cauterise + -er.

Questions about cauteriser

What is cauteriser the alternative spelling of?
Cauteriser is the alternative spelling of cauterizer.

Words near cauteriser in the dictionary

  1. cauteries
  2. cauterisation
  3. cauterisations
  4. cauterise
  5. cauterised
  6. cauteriser
  7. cauterisers
  8. cauterises
  9. cauterising
  10. cauterism
  11. cauterisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cauteriser (page history and authors); cauterizer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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