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THERMOCAUTERY
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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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