diathermy

American  

[dahy-uh-thur-mee] / ˈdaɪ əˌθɜr mi /

Also diathermia

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. the production of heat in body tissues by electric currents, for therapeutic purposes.

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diathermy British  

/ ˈdaɪəˌθɜːmɪ /

noun

1. local heating of the body tissues with an electric current for medical or surgical purposes

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Etymology

Origin of diathermy

< German Diathermie (1909). See dia-, -thermy

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

diathermy

Hogan had been taking diathermy treatments three times a week and lifting weights on the edge of his bed at night, and sleeping with heat pads.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 26, 2020

In fact, intensities of 103 to 104 W/m2 are commonly used for deep-heat treatments called ultrasound diathermy.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

In both athletics and physical therapy, ultrasound diathermy is most often applied to injured or overworked muscles to relieve pain and improve flexibility.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

When nature devised the delicate, low-voltage electrical system that keeps a human heart beating at about 70 times a minute, it did not anticipate interference from doctors' diathermy machines, radio transmitters or neon signs.

From Time Magazine Archive

We wandered through room after room filled with superb apparatus for X-ray examinations, X-ray treatment, diathermy, and electrical treatment of every known kind.

From A Surgeon in Belgium by Henry Sessions Souttar

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