cauterism

From cauter +‎ -ism.

cauterism (countable and uncountable, plural cauterisms)

1. (archaic) The use or application of a caustic; cautery.
   • 1640, Edmund Chilmead, Love's Melancholy:

     the cauterisms on the legs

• “cauterism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• cerastium