Associations to the word «Diathermy»

Wiktionary

DIATHERMY, noun. (physics) (medicine) The generation of heat using high-frequency electromagnetic currents; especially the therapeutic production of heat in tissues in order to form coagulation

Dictionary definition

DIATHERMY, noun. A method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope