cauterizing stone
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