Usually means: Device or process that burns.
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  1. cauter: Collins English Dictionary
  2. cauter: Wordnik
  3. cauter: Wiktionary
  4. cauter: Dictionary.com
  5. Cauter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. cauter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Cauter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. cauter: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Cauter: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cauter-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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  1. Cauter: Encyclopedia

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  1. cauter: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Cauter: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cauter)

▸ noun:  A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.

Similar:
cauterization, firing iron, cauterisation, searing-iron, electrocauterization, fulguration, scorcher, caustic, scarification, scald, more...

Opposite:
uncauterized, unsealed, open, untreated

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Similar:
cauterization, firing iron, cauterisation, searing-iron, electrocauterization, fulguration, scorcher, caustic, scarification, scald, more...

Opposite:
uncauterized, unsealed, open, untreated



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