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A method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents
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diathermy
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n. a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents
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n. (context physics medicine English) The generation of heat using high-frequency electromagnetic currents; especially the therapeutic production of heat in tissues in order to form coagulation
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In medicine , diathermy [di´ah-ther″me] is electrically induced heat or the use of high-frequency electromagnetic currents as a form of physical or occupational therapy and in surgical procedures. The field was pioneered in 1907 by German physician Karl ...
Usage examples of diathermy.
These were controlled by diathermy, but the pectoral vessels running down the border of pectoralis major were ligated.
Reber had been able to detect the radio emission from the center of the Galaxy when no one nearby happened to be starting up the car and the diathermy machine down the street was not in operation.
The Galactic Center was much more powerful, but the diathermy machine was a lot closer.