Noun(1) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart(2) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing(3) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it
Noun(1) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart(2) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing(3) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it
(1) Providers at two centres used thermal cautery , and those at the remaining two used electrocautery.(2) Radiofrequency ablation is the targeted cautery of cardiac tissue by local application of radiofrequency energy.(3) Although a cautery usually is not needed, the nurse places an electrosurgical unit dispersive pad on the patient's thigh.(4) Treatment includes excision or shave excision with curettage and cautery .(5) A bipolar cautery , indelible black marker, and test stimulation equipment and programmer should be available.(6) Thermal cautery may produce a lower incidence of sperm granuloma than electrocautery (grade B evidence).(7) The other methods of body contouring involve the removal of skin and fat primarily by direct incision using scalpel, cautery , CO2 lasers have been used, and any form of direct removal.(8) There are other things on the drawing board such as using radio surgical instruments and thermal instruments as cauteries that should produce very good results.
