cauterizing stone
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -əʊn
Noun[edit]
cauterizing stone (plural cauterizing stones)
- 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[edit]
lunar caustic — see lunar caustic