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Definition of Cauterization
1. Noun. The act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing.
Generic synonyms: Operation, Surgery, Surgical Operation, Surgical Procedure, Surgical Process
Specialized synonyms: Cryocautery, Thermocautery
Derivative terms: Cauterise, Cauterize, Cauterise, Cauterize
Definition of Cauterization
1. n. The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.
Definition of Cauterization
1. Noun. The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cauterization
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Cauterization
1. The use of heat to destroy abnormal cells. Also called diathermy or electrodiathermy. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cauterization
Literary usage of Cauterization
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1849)
"Med.-Chir. Rev., April 1849, from Gazette de» Hôpitaux, 1848, No. 130. 17.
Effects of Cauterization in Inoculation with Virulent Poisonous Agents. ..."
2. Operative gynecology by Harry Sturgeon Crossen (1917)
"Linear cauterization may be made in the office and, like cervical curettage ...
This produces a line of cauterization extending through the diseased mucosa. ..."
3. A Practical treatise on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of spermatorrhœa by François Lallemand (1866)
"In leucorrhœa too, which frequently depends on ulcération of the» neck of the
uterus, cauterization with the nitrate of silver possesses undoubted ..."
4. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1864)
"The difficulty of effectually applying cauterization in children is exceptional,
and would not afford a sufficient reason for the rejection of the method, ..."
5. A Textbook of the diseases of women by Henry Jacques Garrigues (1894)
"Independently of its hemostatic effect, cauterization is often used as au ...
Cauterization by means of the galvano-cautery will be described under Electric ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1880)
"Cauterization. ' This once favorite method of treating all varieties of these
... Even in such cases Sims's operation is far preferable, and cauterization ..."
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