ac·tu·al cautery /ˈækʧ(əw)əl, ˈækʃwəl-/ 名詞
 火灼術


 Ac·tu·al a.
 1. Involving or comprising action; active. [Obs.]
    Her walking and other actual performances.   --Shak.
    Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God.   --Jer. Taylor.
 2. Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.
 3. In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country.
 Actual cautery. See under Cautery.
 Actual sin Theol., that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to “original sin.”
 Syn: -- Real; genuine; positive; certain.  See Real.


 Cau·ter·y n.; pl. Cauteries
 1. Med. A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.
 2. The iron of other agent in cauterizing.
 Actual cautery, a substance or agent (as a hot iron) which cauterizes or sears by actual heat; or the burning so effected.
 Potential cautery, a substance which cauterizes by chemical action; as, lunar caustic; also, the cauterizing produced by such substance.

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