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Definition of "cauterant" []

  • Any cauterizing substance. (noun)

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Use "cauterant" in a sentence
  • "Pepys relates how he met a seaman returning from fighting the Dutch with his eye-socket "stopped with oakum," and as late at least as the Battle of Trafalgar it was customary, in amputations, to treat the bleeding stump with boiling pitch as a cauterant."
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