cauterant

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymscautery

   Broaderinstrument

   Narrowercryocauterysearing iron

Other forms of cauterant

plural

cauterants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cauterant

What does cauterant mean?

cauterant means "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".

How many syllables are in cauterant?

cauterant has 3 syllables: cau-te-rant. The stress falls on "cau".

What is another word for cauterant?

Close synonyms include cautery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cauterant a common word?

cauterant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.