cauterizing stone

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -əʊn

Noun

cauterizing stone (plural cauterizing stones)

  1. Lunar caustic; silver nitrate used for cauterizing.
    • 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:
      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.”

Translations
lunar caustic — see lunar caustic
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