cautery
/ˈkɔːtəɹi/
cautery noun: the use of either extreme heat or extreme cold to either cut or seal body tissue.
Noun
cautery (usually uncountable, plural cauteries)
- The use of either extreme heat or extreme cold to either cut or seal body tissue.
- Modern doctors nod benignly at some of the remedies and principles in Bald's Leechbook, but none has a good word to say for bloodletting - nor for cautery, the other medieval method of balancing the humours.1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 129
- A device used for cutting or sealing body tissue.
cautery meaning in Tamil and Urdu
cautery in Tamil
- எரிகோல், சுடுகோல், சூட்டுக்கோல், தீய்ப்பான்
cautery in Urdu
- cautery
- مہر mohar
Forms of cautery
| plural | cauteries |
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Origin of cautery
From Latin cauterium (“branding iron”).
Words formed from cautery
Questions about cautery
- What does cautery mean?
- Cautery means the use of either extreme heat or extreme cold to either cut or seal body tissue.
- What is cautery in Tamil?
- Cautery in Tamil is எரிகோல், சுடுகோல், சூட்டுக்கோல். See Cautery meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cautery?
- Cautery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cautery?
- Cautery is pronounced /ˈkɔːtəɹi/.
- What is the plural of cautery?
- The plural of cautery is cauteries.
Words near cautery in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cautery (page history and authors); cautery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); مہر (Urdu) (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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