cauterant
IPA: kˈɔtɝʌnt
noun
- Any cauterizing substance.
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Examples of "cauterant" in Sentences
- 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.