cautery
n. சூடிடுதல், சூட்டுக்கோல்.
Cau"ter*y, n.; pl. Cauteries. Etym: [L. cauterium, Gr. Cauter.] 1. (Med.) Defn: 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.