thermocautery

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun thermocautery has 1 sense

thermocautery(n = noun.act) Array - cautery (destruction of tissue) by heat; Array

has particulars: electrocautery

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CIDE DICTIONARY

thermocautery, n. [Thermo- + cautery.].

Cautery by the application of heat. [1913 Webster]

Paquelin's thermocautery, thermocautery by means of a hollow platinum point, which is kept constantly hot by the passage through it of benzine vapor.