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cautery
Overview of noun cautery
The noun cautery has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. cautery, cauterant -- (an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it)
2. cautery, cauterization, cauterisation -- (the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cautery
2 senses of cautery
Sense 1
cautery, cauterant
=> instrument
=> device
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
cautery, cauterization, cauterisation
=> operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
=> medical procedure
=> procedure, process
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun cautery
2 senses of cautery
Sense 1
cautery, cauterant
=> cryocautery
=> searing iron
Sense 2
cautery, cauterization, cauterisation
=> cryocautery
=> thermocautery
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cautery
2 senses of cautery
Sense 1
cautery, cauterant
=> instrument
Sense 2
cautery, cauterization, cauterisation
=> operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
Antonyms of noun cautery
Member Holonyms of noun cautery
Substance Holonyms of noun cautery
Part Holonyms of noun cautery
Member Meronyms of noun cautery
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Meronyms of noun cautery
Holonyms of noun cautery
Attributes of noun cautery
Derived Forms of noun cautery
2 senses of cautery
Sense 1
cautery, cauterant
RELATED TO>(verb) cauterize#1
=> cauterize, cauterise, burn
RELATED TO>(verb) cauterise#1
=> cauterize, cauterise, burn
Sense 2
cautery, cauterization, cauterisation
RELATED TO>(verb) cauterize#1
=> cauterize, cauterise, burn
RELATED TO>(verb) cauterise#1
=> cauterize, cauterise, burn
Domain of noun cautery
Domain Terms of noun cautery
Familiarity of noun cautery
cautery used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun cautery
2 senses of cautery
Sense 1
cautery, cauterant
> instrument
=> analyzer, analyser
=> cautery, cauterant
=> drafting instrument
=> extractor
=> instrument of execution
=> instrument of punishment
=> measuring instrument, measuring system, measuring device
=> medical instrument
=> navigational instrument
=> optical instrument
=> plotter
=> scientific instrument
=> sonograph
=> surveying instrument, surveyor's instrument
=> tracer
=> weapon, arm, weapon system
=> whip
Sense 2
cautery, cauterization, cauterisation
> operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
=> catheterization, catheterisation
=> ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision
=> amputation
=> angioplasty
=> arthroplasty
=> arthroscopy
=> brain surgery
=> castration
=> cautery, cauterization, cauterisation
=> chemosurgery
=> craniotomy
=> cryosurgery
=> curettage, curettement
=> debridement
=> decortication
=> dilation and curettage, dilatation and curettage, D and C
=> electrosurgery
=> enterostomy, enterotomy
=> enucleation
=> wrong-site surgery
=> evisceration
=> exenteration
=> fenestration
=> gastrectomy
=> gastroenterostomy
=> gastrostomy
=> heart surgery
=> hemorrhoidectomy, haemorrhoidectomy
=> hysterotomy
=> implantation
=> iridectomy
=> iridotomy
=> intestinal bypass
=> jejunostomy
=> major surgery
=> microsurgery
=> minor surgery
=> myotomy
=> myringectomy
=> myringoplasty
=> myringotomy
=> neurosurgery
=> orchiopexy
=> osteotomy
=> ostomy
=> palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, UPPP
=> phlebectomy
=> photocoagulation
=> plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty
=> polypectomy
=> resection
=> rhinotomy
=> rhizotomy
=> sex-change operation, transsexual surgery
=> Shirodkar's operation, purse-string operation
=> sterilization, sterilisation
=> strabotomy
=> taxis
=> tracheostomy, tracheotomy
=> transplant, transplantation, organ transplant
=> trephination
=> tympanoplasty
=> uranoplasty
=> vasovasostomy
=> vivisection
Meronyms of noun cautery
2 senses of cautery
Sense 1
cautery, cauterant
=> instrument
=> device
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Sense 2
cautery, cauterization, cauterisation
=> operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
HAS PART: hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia
HAS PART: incision, section, surgical incision
HAS PART: suturing
Holonyms of noun cautery
Grep of noun cautery
cautery
cryocautery
electrocautery
thermocautery
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