Associations to the word «Electrocautery»

Wiktionary

ELECTROCAUTERY, noun. Cauterization by the use of an instrument heated by electricity; electrocauterization
ELECTROCAUTERY, noun. Such an instrument

Dictionary definition

ELECTROCAUTERY, noun. Application of a needle heated by an electric current to destroy tissue (as to remove warts).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope