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UK
/kˈɔːtəɹi/
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NOUN
- the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing
- an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it
How To Use cautery In A Sentence
- Although a cautery usually is not needed, the nurse places an electrosurgical unit dispersive pad on the patient's thigh.
- Due to its common application in general surgery and gastroenterology, electrocautery equipment is available in almost every operating room.
- It is usually necessary to treat the point from which the tumor is taken by means of the galvanic cautery, chromic acid, or some other escharotic. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
- The first applications that he attempted related to the use of electricity in surgery, a wonderfully fecund branch, but one whose importance was scarcely suspected, notwithstanding the results already obtained through the application of the insufflation pile to galvano-cautery. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
- Surgery is equipped with the highest quality instruments, including cautery and suction, allowing us to perform many soft tissue surgeries such as ovariohysterectomies, neuters, tumor removals, cystotomies, abdominal exploratories, and much more.
- Argon plasma coagulation is a mode of noncontact electrocoagulation that has been increasingly used as an alternative to contact electrocautery and noncontact laser therapy.
- Treatment includes excision or shave excision with curettage and cautery.
- No randomised trials were identified that studied the efficacy of carbon dioxide laser, surgical excision, curettage or cautery, formaldehyde, podophyllin, or podophyllotoxin.
- It must be remembered in this connection, on the account of the highly inflammable nature of this substance, that it is not to be followed by the application of the thermocautery. Archive 2008-09-01
- A bipolar cautery, indelible black marker, and test stimulation equipment and programmer should be available.