Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for electrocautery. Search instead for Paquelin's+thermocautery.

electrocautery

American  
[ih-lek-troh-kaw-tuh-ree] / ɪˌlɛk troʊˈkɔ tə ri /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

plural

electrocauteries

  1. a handheld, needlelike cautery heated by an electric current.

  2. Also electrocauterization the process of cutting and cauterizing skin simultaneously, or coagulating blood from vessels around a surgical incision, by means of an electrocautery.

electrocautery British  
/ ɪˌlɛktrəʊˈkɔːtərɪ /

noun

  1. vet science the use of an electrically heated metal instrument for cautery

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of electrocautery

First recorded in 1880–85; electro- + cautery

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.