Plural of cautery; multiple instances of burning or branding tissue, or tools used for cauterization.
From cautery + -ies plural suffix. Cautery comes from Latin cauterium (branding iron) via Greek kauter (burning).
Medical records from the 1600s describe patients undergoing multiple cauteries in a single operation—applying heat to different parts of a wound to stop infection. Doctors ranked them by how deep the burn went.
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