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thermocautery


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Thermocautery  \Ther`mo*cau"ter*y\,  n.  [Thermo-  +  cautery.] 
  (Surg.) 
  Cautery  by  the  application  of  heat. 
 
  {Paquelin's  thermocautery},  thermocautery  by  means  of  a 
  hollow  platinum  point,  which  is  kept  constantly  hot  by  the 
  passage  through  it  of  benzine  vapor. 




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