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galvanocaustic

galvanocaustic adjective: relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.

Adjective

galvanocaustic (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.
    • galvanocaustic knife
    • galvanocaustic needle

Examples of galvanocaustic in a sentence

  • galvanocaustic treatment
  • galvanocaustic radical treatment

Forms of galvanocaustic

pluralgalvanocaustics

Origin of galvanocaustic

From galvano- + caustic.

Questions about galvanocaustic

What does galvanocaustic mean?
Galvanocaustic means relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.
How do you use galvanocaustic in a sentence?
galvanocaustic treatment
What part of speech is galvanocaustic?
Galvanocaustic is an adjective.

Words near galvanocaustic in the dictionary

  1. galvannealed
  2. galvannealing
  3. galvanneals
  4. Galvano
  5. galvano-
  6. galvanocaustic
  7. galvanocauteries
  8. galvanocauterization
  9. galvanocauterizations
  10. galvanocautery
  11. galvanocontractility

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