cautery
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The destruction of tissue by application of heat, electricity or a caustic agent, often to arrest bleeding.
Silver-nitrate cautery of the bleeding point on Little's area stopped the recurrent epistaxis.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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