THERMOCAUTERY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cautery (destruction of tissue) by heat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("thermocautery" is a kind of...):

cauterisation; cauterization; cautery (the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thermocautery"):

electrocautery (application of a needle heated by an electric current to destroy tissue (as to remove warts))

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