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Cau"ter*ize (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cauterized (?); p.
pr. & vb. n. Cauterizing.] [L.
cauterizare, Gr. &?;, fr. a branding iron: cf. F.
cautérised.. See cauter.] 1.
To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.
Dunglison.

2. To sear, as the conscience.
Jer. Taylor.

Cau"ter*y (?), n.; pl.
Cauteries (#). [L. cauterium, Gr. &?;.
See Cauter.] 1. (Med.) 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.

2. The iron of other agent in
cauterizing.

Actual cautery, a substance or agent (as
a hot iron) which cauterizes or sears by actual heat; or the
burning so effected. -- Potential cautery,
a substance which cauterizes by chemical action; as, lunar
caustic; also, the cauterizing produced by such
substance.


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