electrocautery

1. 1.

   application of a needle heated by an electric current to destroy tissue (as to remove warts)

   Broaderthermocautery

Other forms of electrocautery

plural

electrocauteries·

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 electrocautery

What does electrocautery mean?

electrocautery means "application of a needle heated by an electric current to destroy tissue (as to remove warts)".

How many syllables are in electrocautery?

electrocautery has 6 syllables: e-lec-tro-cau-te-ry. The stress falls on "cau".

Is electrocautery a common word?

electrocautery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.