Cautery

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An agent or instrument used to destroy abnormal tissue by burning, searing, or scarring, including caustic substances, electric currents, lasers, and very hot or very cold instruments.
  • n. The act or process of cauterizing.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The process of using either extreme heat or extreme cold to either cut or seal body tissue.
  • n. A device used for cutting or sealing body tissue.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.
  • n. The iron of other agent in cauterizing.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, by a hot iron or by caustic substances that burn, corrode, or destroy the solid parts of an animal body.
  • n. The instrument or drug employed in cauterizing.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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
  • n. the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing
    • Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    chimaera    gastrula    ice pick    depressors    labia   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.