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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cautery \Cau"ter*y\, n.; pl {Cauteries}. [L. cauterium, Gr ?. See {Cauter}.] 1. (Med.) A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue. 2. The iron of other agent in cauterizing. {Actual cautery}, a substance or agent (as a hot iron) which cauterizes or sears by actual heat; or the burning so effected. {Potential cautery}, a substance which cauterizes by chemical action as lunar caustic; also the cauterizing produced by such substance.
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