Adustion
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Adustion is a noun meaning The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
Meaning
The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
More Meanings
- (surgery) Cauterization.
Example Sentences
it must be by aduſtion or putting it into a fame
Albucasis adviseth that neither incision nor adustion is to be made in the Neck or Throat; because of the many Vessels, as Arteries, Nerves and Veins, there every where planted;
But if her death doe enſue thereupon, he shal render life for life, / eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote, / aduſtion for aduſtion, wound for wound, ſtripe for ſtripe.
Even while disputing the model, Gendron and Wiseman, both prominent medical authors and practitioners, grudgingly admitted that adustion had become the predominant theory on the generation of cancers.
Word Forms
- adustions
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include burning, accension, incension, combustion, adaptation, adjournment.
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