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knife needle (medicine) and cauterize (iou)


knife needle (medicine)


knife needle


A very narrow, needle-pointed knife used in discission of a cataract.

Synonym: cataract needle.


cauterize (iou)



cauterize verb trans. Also cauterise. LME.
[Old & mod. French cauteriser from late Latin cauterizare from Greek kauteriazein, from kauterion: see CAUTERY, -IZE.]
Burn or sear with heat or a caustic substance, esp. in surgical operations. LME.
fig. Deaden, make insensible or callous. L16.
Southey Custom soon cauterizes human sympathy.
cauteri'zation noun LME.