electrocautery

noun, plural e·lec·tro·cau·ter·ies. Medicine/Medical.

1. a handheld, needlelike cautery heated by an electric current.
2. Also e·lec·tro·cau·ter·i·za·tion. the process of cutting and cauterizing skin simultaneously, or coagulating blood from vessels around a surgical incision, by means of an electrocautery.

noun

1. vet science the use of an electrically heated metal instrument for cautery

n.

1. An instrument for directing a high-frequency current through a local area of tissue.
2. A metal cauterizing instrument heated by electricity.
3. The cauterization of tissue by means of one of these instruments.