Definitions for cauteries

cauteries cau·ter·y

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

Cauteries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 621 anagrams from letters in cauteries (aceeirstu).

Definitions for cauteries

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 cauteries

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

Examples for cauteries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 cauteries
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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