【医】 火烙术, , 烙铁

Actual \Ac"tu*al\ (#; 135), a. [OE. actuel, F. actuel, L.
actualis, fr. agere to do, act.]
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}.


Cautery \Cau"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Cauteries}. [L. cauterium, Gr. ?.
See {Cauter}.]
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.