cautery

cautery has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.
• n.. The iron of other agent in cauterizing.
• n.. the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing
• n.. 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