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THERMOCAUTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thermocautery mean? 

THERMOCAUTERY (noun)
  The noun THERMOCAUTERY has 1 sense:

1. cautery (destruction of tissue) by heatplay

  Familiarity information: THERMOCAUTERY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


THERMOCAUTERY (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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