Cautery

Definitions: Cautery

Cautery

Noun

1. An instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it.

2. The act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing.

Date "cautery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Cautery \Cau"ter*y\, noun; plural Cauteries. [Latin expression cauterium. See Cauter.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Cautery

Synonyms: cauterant (n), cauterisation (n), cauterization (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Calefaction	Noun: increase of temperature; heating. Verb: calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction; melting, fusion; liquefaction; burning. Verb: ambustion, combustion; incension, accension; concremation, cremation; scorification; cautery, cauterization; ustulation, calcination; cracking, refining; incineration, cineration; carbonization; cupellation.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Cautery

English words defined with "cautery": Cauteries, Cauterism ♦ Diacaustic ♦ Galvanocautery ♦ lunar caustic ♦ Moxa ♦ Potential cautery ♦ silver nitrate ♦ thermocautery. (references)

Etymologies containing "cautery": Cauter ♦ thermocautery. (references)

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	Approximately 1 cm in diameter, this aymptomatic solitary polyp in a 57-year-old male is sessile and smooth. The polyp was removed by snare cautery.Credit: CDC.		Application of the actual cautery.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	[Forceps and cautery instruments] / Jonas Arnold Delineavit.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Endoscopic injection or cautery can be used to treat bleeding sites throughout the lower intestinal tract. (references)
		Management modalities for HSIL are established and include colposcopy-directed biopsy and endocervical curettage followed by conization with scalpel, cautery, laser, or loop electrocautery excision procedure. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Cautery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cautery" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

Expressions using "cautery": Actual cautery ♦ potential cautery. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "cautery": electro-cautery.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "cautery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		të djegurit (afterburning, burning, cauterization), mjet për të djegurit. (various references)

Arabic		‏ميسم, ‏الكي (cauterization). (various references)

Bulgarian		обгаряне (cauterization, scorch), инструмент за обгаряне. (various references)

Czech		kauter. (various references)

Danish		instrument til udbraending, instrument til kauterisation. (various references)

Dutch		cauter, schroeiijzer, brandijzer (brand, branding iron). (various references)

French		cautère. (various references)

German		Kauter, Brenneisen (brand, branding iron), ausbrennen (be burnt out, be gutted, become extinct, burn out, burnout, burnouts, cauterize, scorch, sear, to burn out). (various references)

Greek		καυτηρίαση (cauterization), καυτήριο, καυτήρας. (various references)

Hebrew		כוי�" (burn, burning, cauterization, scalding, scorch). (various references)

Hungarian		maratás (etching, etchwork, milling). (various references)

Italian		cauterio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		点す (to apply moxa cautery, to light, to turn on), 灯す (to apply moxa cautery, to light, to turn on), 温灸 (moxa cautery). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		お�"きゅう (moxa cautery, pension), さす (reef, sandbank, sandbar, to apply moxa cautery, to bite, to catch, to graft, to insert, to light, to pierce, to pin down, to play, to point, to pole, to pour, to prick, to put in, to put up umbrella, to putout, to raise umbrella, to raisehands, to serve, to shine, to stab, to stick, to sting, to stitch, to strike, to thrust, to wear in belt). (various references)

Pig Latin		auterycay

Portuguese		cautério. (various references)

Romanian		cauterizare, cauter. (various references)

Russian		прижигающее средство, прижигание (cauterization). (various references)

Spanish		cauterio. (various references)

Swedish		brännjärn (brand, branding iron), bränning (breaker, burn, burning, cauterization, combustion, cremation, firing, land-wash, surf). (various references)

Turkish		yakma (auto da fe, cauterization, firing, incineration, lighting, sting), dağlayan şey, dağlama demiri (branding iron), dağlama (branding, cauterization). (various references)

Ukranian		термокаутер, припікання (cauterization), припікальний засіб. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "cautery" (pronounced 'Cau"ter*y'): Adulterously, Adultery, Allottery, Alterably, Artery, Bartery, Bitterly, Blistery, Blusteringly, Boisterously, Butterfly, Canterbury, Catery, Clatteringly, Clusteringly, Clustery, Counter-compony, Counterfeitly, Counterfleury, Counterflory, Counter-paly, Countersway, Daughterly, Dexterously, Dicastery, Disasterly, Disinterestedly, Flatteringly, flattery, Flutteringly, Galvanocautery, Glitteringly, interestingly, Interluency, Latterday, latterly, Littery, Loiteringly, lottery, masterfully, mastery, Mattery, Mistery, Mutteringly, Palterly, Periptery, Pewtery, Phylactery, Plasterly, Plastery. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-r-t-u-y"
	-1 letter: acuter, curate.
	-2 letters: acute, caret, carte, cater, crate, cruet, curet, cuter, cutey, eruct, react, recta, recut, teary, trace, truce, tuyer, urate, yurta.
	-3 letters: acre, aery, arty, care, cart, cate, cure, curt, cute, ecru, eyra, race, racy, rate, tace, tare, tear, tray, trey, true, tyer, tyre, urea, yare, year, yuca, yurt.
	-4 letters: ace, act, arc.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-r-t-u-y"
	+1 letter: centaury.
	+2 letters: arcuately, electuary, eucaryote.
	+3 letters: accurately, creaturely, curatively, eucaryotes, eukaryotic, eurybathic, excusatory, hyperacute, reluctancy, secularity.
	+4 letters: anticruelty, cellularity, counterplay, countryseat, documentary, ejaculatory, exculpatory, granulocyte, hyperacuity, lucratively, peculiarity, reluctantly, specularity, subcategory, subliteracy, uncertainly, uncertainty.
	+5 letters: agranulocyte, articulately, counterplays, counterrally, countryseats, denunciatory, diuretically, elocutionary, granulocytes, inaccurately, interfaculty, neurotically, perceptually, renunciatory, reticulately, subcentrally, subsecretary, translucency, unhysterical, vesicularity.
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