Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to the heat derived from a current of electricity when employed in cauterization.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective dated Relating to the use of
galvanic heat as acaustic , especially inmedicine .
Etymologies
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Examples
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-- In the non-cicatricial forms, galvanocaustic puncture applied through the direct laryngoscope will usually reduce the infiltrations sufficiently to provide a free airway.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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A diffuse telangiectasis, should it require treatment, may be gently touched with a needle-pointed galvanocaustic electrode at a number of sittings.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The less redundant cases subside under galvanocaustic treatment, which may be preceded by tracheotomy and extubation, or the intubation tube may be replaced after the application of the cautery.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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