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Cautery
//ˈkɔːtəɹi//
"Cautery" in a Sentence (2 examples)
The doctor may advise cautery, a method that burns the blood vessel with electric current, silver nitrate or a laser.
Modern doctors nod benignly at some of the remedies and principles in Bald's Leechbook, but none has a good word to say for bloodletting - nor for cautery, the other medieval method of balancing the humours.
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