cauterism
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cauterism (countable and uncountable, plural cauterisms)
- (archaic) The use or application of a caustic; cautery.
- 1640, Edmund Chilmead, Love's Melancholy:
- the cauterisms on the legs
References[edit]
- “cauterism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.