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  • noun Plural form of cautery.

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Examples

  • Cupping-glasses, cauteries how and when used to melancholy

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Issues, boring, cauteries, hot irons in the suture of the crown.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • You should be thinking in terms of bandages and cauteries, not silks and pearls. '

    The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

  • To do this, they administered purgatives and astringent gargles, prescribed cauteries and blisters on the neck and behind the ears, and on occasion even encased the whole head in plaster to dry it out.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • To do this, they administered purgatives and astringent gargles, prescribed cauteries and blisters on the neck and behind the ears, and on occasion even encased the whole head in plaster to dry it out.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • The wound in the shoulder is miraculously healing, without either blood-letting or cauteries.

    To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903

  • But when such a man was roused from his stupor by the cauteries of Calvinism, despair was more likely to take possession of his mind than the pious energy and humble hopes which follow true repentance.

    The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805

  • Revenues in the third quarter were positively impacted by an increase in sales of generators, electrodes and cauteries both domestically and internationally offsetting a reduction in the sale of OEM ablator deliveries.

    Bovie Medical Corporation Announces Third Quarter Financial Results; Files Patent for New J-Plasma™ Handpiece - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • Health to be worth purchasing by all the most painful cauteries

    Images from the Essays of Montaigne Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • Sometimes he suffered incision and cauteries with so great constancy as never to be seen so much as to wince.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 12 Michel de Montaigne 1562

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