Definitions for cautery

cautery cau·ter·y

Spelling: [kaw-tuh-ree]
IPA: /ˈkɔ tə ri/

Cautery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in cautery (acertuy).

Definitions for cautery

noun

  1. an escharotic substance, electric current, or hot iron used to destroy tissue.
  2. the process of destroying tissue with a cautery.

Origin of cautery

1350-1400; Middle English Latin cautērium Greek kautḗrion, equivalent to kautḗr branding iron (see cauterize) + -ion diminutive suffix

Examples for cautery

He brought in a cautery, a furnace, and other terrible instruments used then in medical practice.

This was the case particularly as to the encouragement of free bleeding and the use of the cautery.

They tell me the cautery, if dexterously applied, is better; but I have not tried it.

The cautery may, if necessary, be reintroduced several times.

The operation by the clamp and cautery is a good method when the hemorrhoidal tumors are small.

The cancer had taken firm hold, and was beyond the reach of any cautery.

There are some diseases so terrible that they must be cured by the knife and the cautery.

Never mind a little pain, either,—one must touch the quick to make the cautery effectual.

If the spurting blood should cool the cautery, take another.

Hemorrhage was prevented by pressure, by the binding on of burnt wool firmly, and by the ligature of veins and by the cautery.

Word Value for cautery
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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