An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionaryBeing a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French and German languages . CAUTERY, n. Ka*te^r-i2, Gr., KavTrjp, KavTJjpiov. Lat, cauter,cauterium. Fr., cautere. Ger., Kautei: It., Sp., cauterio. Anycauterizing agent, particularly the actual c. (q. v.).—Actual , cauterium actuale^ ferrum candens. Fr., cautere , Brenneisen, GlUheisen. It., catiterio attuale. Sp., cauteriocandente. A heated iron or other apparatus for cauterization bymeans of actual heat, as
An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionaryBeing a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French and German languages . CAUTERY, n. Ka*te^r-i2, Gr., KavTrjp, KavTJjpiov. Lat, cauter,cauterium. Fr., cautere. Ger., Kautei: It., Sp., cauterio. Anycauterizing agent, particularly the actual c. (q. v.).—Actual , cauterium actuale^ ferrum candens. Fr., cautere , Brenneisen, GlUheisen. It., catiterio attuale. Sp., cauteriocandente. A heated iron or other apparatus for cauterization bymeans of actual heat, as opposed to the potential c—Button-c. shaped like a button. [L.]—Conical c. Fr., cautere co-nique. A in the form of a truncated cone. [A, 385.]—Elec-tric c. Galvanic c, Galvano-c. Fr., galvano-cautere^ cautire. PAQUELINS cautery. elecfrique. A c. apparatus in which a loop of wire or an instrumentfashioned somewhat like a knife, made of platinum (selected on ac-count of its being a comparatively poor conductor of electricity), isinterposed in a galvanic circuit and heated by means of a batteryarranged for quantity (see under Batteey). [A, 321.]—Gas , cautere a gaz. An apparatus invented by N61aton for cauteri-zation with an illuminating-gas flame. An elastic bag for holdingthe gas communicates by a piece of rubber tubing with a glass tubedrawn to a point having a calibre of Ol mm. [ Bull. g6n. de th6-rap., 1863, p. 540 (a, 21).]—Knife c. A C. instrument shaped hke aknife.—Nuiniuular c. Fr., cautere nummulaire. A in theform of a coin-like disc. [A, 385.]—Paquelin*s c. The so-calledthermo-c; an apparatus founded on the property possessed byplatinum, when neated red-hot, of remaining incandescent as longas the vapor of a hydrocarbon is projected upon it. A hollow pieceof pla
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