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cauterizing stone

noun

Lunar caustic; silver nitrate used for cauterizing.

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Meanings

nouncauterizing stone (plural cauterizing stones)

plural cauterizing stones

Lunar caustic; silver nitrate used for cauterizing.
Bazarov came into his father’s room and asked him if he had a cauterizing stone. “Yes. What do you want it for?” “I need it...to burn a cut.”
1994, Constance Garnet, transl., edited by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, Fathers and Sons, translation of Отцы и дети (Ottsy i dety) by Ivan Turgenev, published 1862, →ISBN, page 198

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with cauterizing stone

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APA

cauterizing stone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cauterizing%20stone

MLA

“cauterizing stone.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cauterizing%20stone. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cauterizing stone,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cauterizing%20stone.

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