Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, a cautery in which a galvanic current is used to heat the cauterizing part of the apparatus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current.
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- noun surgery
Cautery by means of aknife orneedle heated by agalvanic current .
Etymologies
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Examples
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These measures as well as the galvanocautery are easily executed by the facile operator; but their advisability should always be considered from a conservative viewpoint.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Sessile vocal nodules may be cured by touching them with a fine galvanocautery point, but all work on the vocal cords must be done with extreme caution and nicety.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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If very large, they may be amputated with the snare, the base being treated with galvanocautery though this is seldom advisable.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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