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cauterizing stone

cauterizing stone noun: lunar caustic; silver nitrate used for cauterizing.

Noun

cauterizing stone (plural cauterizing stones)

  1. Lunar caustic; silver nitrate used for cauterizing.
    • Bazarov came into his father’s room and asked him if he had a cauterizing stone.
      “Yes. What do you want it for?”
      “I need it...to burn a cut.”1994, Constance Garnet, transl., edited by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, Fathers and Sons, translation of Отцы и дети (Ottsy i dety) by Ivan Turgenev, published 1862, →ISBN, page 198

Forms of cauterizing stone

pluralcauterizing stones

Words that rhyme with cauterizing stone

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Questions about cauterizing stone

What does cauterizing stone mean?
Cauterizing stone means lunar caustic; silver nitrate used for cauterizing.
What part of speech is cauterizing stone?
Cauterizing stone is a noun.
What is the plural of cauterizing stone?
The plural of cauterizing stone is cauterizing stones.

Words near cauterizing stone in the dictionary

  1. cauterized
  2. cauterizer
  3. cauterizers
  4. cauterizes
  5. cauterizing
  6. cauterizing stone
  7. cauterizing stones
  8. cauters
  9. Cauterucci
  10. Cauteruccis
  11. cautery

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