Usually means: Burning tissue with heated instrument.
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  1. thermocautery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. thermocautery: Vocabulary.com
  3. thermocautery: Wordnik
  4. thermocautery: Wiktionary
  5. thermocautery: Dictionary.com
  6. Thermocautery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. thermocautery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. thermocautery: Rhymezone
  9. Thermocautery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. thermocautery: FreeDictionary.org
  11. thermocautery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. thermocautery: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. thermocautery: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. thermocautery: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (thermocautery)

▸ noun:  Cauterization by means of heat

Similar:
chemocautery, electrocautery, radiocautery, Paquelin's thermocautery, cautery, firing, cryocauterization, thermocoagulation, cryocautery, galvanocauterization, more...

Phrases:
Paquelin's thermocautery, paquelins thermocautery, more...

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Similar:
chemocautery, electrocautery, radiocautery, Paquelin's thermocautery, cautery, firing, cryocauterization, thermocoagulation, cryocautery, galvanocauterization, more...

Phrases:
Paquelin's thermocautery, paquelins thermocautery, more...



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