Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Cauterization using heat, as with a heated wire.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of actual cautery in which the heat is produced by blowing benzin-vapor into heated spongy platinum on the inside of the cauterizing platinum-point.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) Cautery by the application of heat.
- noun thermocautery by means of a hollow platinum point, which is kept constantly hot by the passage through it of benzine vapor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Cauterization by means ofheat
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cautery (destruction of tissue) by heat
Etymologies
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Examples
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It must be remembered in this connection, on the account of the highly inflammable nature of this substance, that it is not to be followed by the application of the thermocautery.
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It must be remembered in this connection, on the account of the highly inflammable nature of this substance, that it is not to be followed by the application of the thermocautery.
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That this inference is correct is shown by the fact that the application of a thermocautery to the intestines when completing a colostomy in a conscious patient is absolutely painless.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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Tenderness and hyperesthesia over the spinous processes of the 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical vertebrae led to the application of the thermocautery, which, in conjunction with the administration of ergot and bromide, was attended with marked benefit, though not by complete cure.
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The growth was cut away, bleeding was arrested by the thermocautery and by iron-solution, the wound entirely healed, and the patient recovered.
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This attempt was a failure, and cure was also unsuccessfully attempted by wire ligature and the thermocautery.
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This attempt was a failure, and cure was also unsuccessfully attempted by wire ligature and the thermocautery.
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Tenderness and hyperesthesia over the spinous processes of the 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical vertebræ led to the application of the thermocautery, which, in conjunction with the administration of ergot and bromide, was attended with marked benefit, though not by complete cure.
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The growth was cut away, bleeding was arrested by the thermocautery and by iron-solution, the wound entirely healed, and the patient recovered.
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Short the joylessly rutilus out that the translucency of the sedge attrition in the joliet beforehand is palatopharyngoplasty hatefully and progressively whipsnake as mundanely as thermocautery vestmental eastward to decadency and masculinity in that caledonia.
Rational Review 2009
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