galvanocautery

English

Etymology

galvano- +‎ cautery

Noun

galvanocautery (usually uncountable, plural galvanocauteries)

(surgery) Cautery by means of a knife or needle heated by a galvanic current.

Translations

cautery by means of a knife or needle heated by a galvanic current

French: galvanocautérisation f (process), galvanocautère (fr) m (device)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for galvanocautery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)