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cautery n. 烧灼,烧灼物,腐蚀 烧灼,烧灼物,腐蚀 cautery n 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 [ synonym: { cautery}, { cauterant}] 2: the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing [ synonym: { cautery}, { cauterization}, { cauterisation}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The iron of other agent in cauterizing. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster]
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