| 单词 | potential cautery |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotential cautery 2. Medicine. Designating (the use of) a cauterizing agent other than a red-hot implement, esp. a caustic substance; contrasted with actual (cf. cautery n. 1). Chiefly in potential cautery. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > corrosive or caustic > [noun] potential cauterya1400 corrosivec1400 corsiec1450 caustic1582 corsive1593 corrodent1614 pyrotic1634 escharotic1655 scarotique1673 cautery1689 diabrotic1775 caustic arrow1860 catheretic1887 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > [noun] > application of corrosives or caustics corrosiving?1593 potential cautery1598 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 305 (MED) He knowiþ not þe difference bitwixe a cauterie þat is clepid actuel & potencial [L. potentiale]. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 509 (MED) But for þat..many folk be made wode in þe wirchynge for drede of þe fyre, I haue chosen to me þat of þe potencial cauterie. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 17 b/2 We vse nowe in these dayes potentialle corrosiues. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 428 The potentiall Cauterie is done by applying vnto the greeued place, some medicine corosiue, putrifactiue, or causticke. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 133 In which case..a potentiall causticke medicament..is conuenient. 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. v. 19 The Person who had drawn his Tooth..endeavoured to consume the Excrescence..both by Potential and Actual Cautery. 1830 Lancet 6 Mar. 804/2 To work he went, with that active potential cautery, potassa fusa, which he applied with such slovenly profuseness. 1857 Lancet 13 June 600/2 Effects of a potential caustic upon the course of a carbuncle. 2005 Jrnl. Cardiac Failure 11 249/2 The notion that actual cautery with a heated metal instrument or potential cautery by the application of heated cups or caustic substances to the skin could be used to direct bad humors to different parts of the body. < as lemmas |
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