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nouncauterizer (plural cauterizers)
plural cauterizers
- One who, or that which, cauterizes.
Various wands and clippers and cauterizers went into other little holes, and while watching the screens, the two doctors moved them around as if working joysticks on a video game.
2007 April 3, Charles Mcgrath, “Atul Gawande Rocks in the O.R.”, in New York Times
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APA
cauterizer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cauterizer
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“cauterizer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cauterizer. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cauterizer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cauterizer.
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