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cauterizing stone en · NOUN

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1. 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:

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