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Definitions
the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing
Word origin
From Latin cauterium (“branding iron”).
Used in a sentence
“Modern doctors nod benignly at some of the remedies and principles in Bald's Leechbook, but none has a good word to say for bloodletting - nor for cautery, the other medieval method of balancing the humours.”
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