Definition of Cauterization

1. Noun. The act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing.


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

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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

cautelousness
cautels
cauter
cauterant
cauterants
cauteries
cauterisation
cauterise
cauterised
cauteriser
cauterisers
cauterises
cauterising
cauterism
cauterisms
cauterization (current term)
cauterizations
cauterize
cauterized
cauterizer
cauterizers
cauterizes
cauterizing
cauters
cautery
cautery knife
caution
cautionary
cautionary tale
cautioned

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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