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diathermy

[ UK /dˈa‍ɪəθəmi/ ]
[ US /ˈdaɪəˌθɝmi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents

How To Use diathermy In A Sentence

  • She had been given 5 mg intravenous diazepam for sedation, and colonoscopic diathermy or biopsy had not been used.
  • Laparoscopic ovarian diathermy or ‘drilling’ has replaced wedge resection of the ovaries in women with polycystic ovary syndrome.
  • Pain; Soft tissue; Diathermy; Silver needle; Treatment outcome.
  • The chief hazards from dental equipment to pacemakers are from electrosurgery and diathermy, but these are infrequently used and the risk from other equipment such as ultrasonic scalers or pulp testers is very small.
  • One patient received diathermy following oral surgery, the other for treatment of chronic scoliosis.
  • Manipulation is better than sham therapy and several methods that have been shown to be ineffective or harmful, such as traction, corsets, bed rest, diathermy, and no therapy.
  • The fact that the effect observed RF burns on human skin happens over a small area, and is accompanied by other phenomena that one might not notice until the second or third such incident is strongly indicative of resistive heating, and deprecatory of a diathermy hypothesis. stevaroni replied to comment from Shebardigan Freshwater: A Bonsell in the offing? - The Panda's Thumb
  • The injection of the anaesthetic was excruciating - the worst pain I've had since age 20 - and the anaesthesia was almost nonexistant, so the diathermy afterwards was unpleasant too. Pain in the Hip Pocket Nerve
  • That would be diathermy as opposed to simple heat generated at the point of skin contact by the passage of current through a fairly large-value resistor. Freshwater: A Bonsell in the offing? - The Panda's Thumb
  • The next line of therapy involves the use of semi-invasive non-surgical modalities including electrocoagulation, sclerotherapy, cryotherapy, photocoagulation, and diathermy.
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