TENS

[ tenz ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.

1. a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.

TENS

/ tɛnz /

acronym for

1. transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation: the application of low-voltage electric impulses to the skin to relieve rheumatic pain and provide some pain relief in labour. The pulses are said to stimulate the release of pain-killing endorphins

Word History and Origins

Origin of TENS¹

t(ranscutaneous) e(lectrical) n(erve) s(timulator)

Example Sentences

It happened and it was a group of maybe 200 in a movement that has drawn tens of thousands in New York alone.

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And it depends on grand juries who act as a conveyor belt, quickly funneling tens of thousands of young Black men into prison.

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Tens of thousands of civilians still live in the city, starving, with limited food and water.

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Five, the tens or arguably hundreds of millions of dollars in dark money that flowed from corporate sources into GOP coffers.

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Even a government that has turned two blind eyes can hear the clamoring of tens of thousands of demonstrators.

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A few hundreds of Europeans would strive to keep at bay tens of thousands of eager rebels.

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The great axe was swinging over his head; and as it poised, first De Carnac, then Nasr, then the rest by tens cleared the wall.

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They were the school-masters of thousands and tens of thousands, perpetuating their ideas to remotest generations.

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The infidels are closing round, and dark as it is we can hear the hoof-beats of tens of thousands.

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Even today tens of thousands of educated men regard him as a monomaniac concerning the abolition of slavery.

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