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cauterizing stones

cauterizing stones is the plural of cauterizing stone.

Meaning of cauterizing stone

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

Questions about cauterizing stones

What is cauterizing stones the plural of?
Cauterizing stones is the plural of cauterizing stone.

Words near cauterizing stones in the dictionary

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

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