Cauterize

(kaw' -ter-lz). To sear or burn with a cautery or a caustic Cautery (kaw'-ter-e). Primarily, the term was applied to caustics, but more frequently now to the platinum-wire heated by an electric current, or the hot iron, for counter-irritation, removal of ti ue, etc. C, Actual, the white-hot iron. C. Button, iron heated in hot water. C, ical dentistry to a metallic base for artificial teeth, so constructed as to have one or more vacant spaces between it and the gums, which, when applied, and the air exhausted, contributes very greatly to the firmne of its adhesion. C, Pre peritoneal, a name given by Retzius to the loose and yielding sub peritoneal ti ue in front of the bladder, under the supposition that it could be inflated. It is not a true cavity, but merely a succe ion of areolar spaces. C, Sigmoid. See Sigmoid. Cavo-valgus (ka'-vo-val'-gus). Cavus combined with valgus. See (ka'-vum). Any hollow or cavity, normal or pathologic. C. dent is. See Dental Cavity. Cavus (ka'-vus). I. A hollow; a cavity. 2. Talipes foot. arcuatus; hollow-foot. Corrigan's. See Button . C, Dento-Electric, consists of a looped wire, held by set-screws, in contact with metal conductors that pa through a hard rubber handle. The battery wires are coupled to two terminals. This appliance is held in the hand like a pencil in writing, and the current is closed by pre ing a spring with the forefinger, when the resistance of the loop of wire causes it to become heated. It is employed for obtunding sensitive dentine. C, Galvanic, a platinum wire heated by electricity. C, Gas, cauterization by a stream of burning gas directed upon Cayenne Pepper (ki'-en pep'-er). See Capsicum . Cazenave's Lupus. See Diseases, Table of. C. Solution. An animal parasiticide used in dermatology. It consists of iodid of sulphur, iodid of pota ium, of each. A genus of rhamnaceous shrubs, chiefly N. American. C. american us, New Jersey tea, red root, is used in domestic medicine as an astringent and alterative; its leaves are substituted for tea. Unof. the part. C, Paquelin's, or C, Thermo-, a hollow platinum point kept at uniform temperature by a current of benzene vapor. C, Potential, or C, Virtual, the application of caustic substances.