Cautery

n.	1.	(Med.) A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.
	2.	The iron of other agent in cauterizing. Actual cautery a substance or agent (as a hot iron) which cauterizes or sears by actual heat; or the burning so effected. Potential cautery a substance which cauterizes by chemical action; as, lunar caustic; also, the cauterizing produced by such substance.

Noun	1.	cautery - 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 Synonyms: cauterant
	2.	cautery - the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing Synonyms: cauterisation, cauterization

burn, cauterant, cauterise, cauterize, cryocautery, instrument, searing iron