Definitions
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- noun The therapeutic generation of local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents.
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- noun physics, medicine The generation of
heat usinghigh-frequency electromagnetic currents ; especially thetherapeutic production of heat intissues in order to formcoagulation
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- noun a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents
Etymologies
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Examples
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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 2009
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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 2009
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I should also point out, as Shebardigan mentioned in an earlier post, microwave ovens and diathermy essentially heat by coupling energy from an RF field to the vibrational and rotational modes of molecules, especially complex organic molecules.
Freshwater: A Bonsell in the offing? - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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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 Zoe Brain 2007
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It went out of business at the end of 1915 after successful litigation by a client whose knee had been burned by a diathermy machine.
Bartitsu Ray Girvan 2005
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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.
Archive 2007-05-01 Zoe Brain 2007
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The D'Arsonval machine was a type of Violet Ray Generator, and Nagelschmidt apparatus was diathermy.
Bartitsu Ray Girvan 2005
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I'd had some diathermy before in an area of incomplete anaesthesia - it just wasn't possible to numb that area at all - and although it hurt A LOT! it was over very quickly - my OB/GYN completed it in less than 5 seconds - and it was no worse than, say, having a burn on your arm from a hot soldering iron.
Archive 2007-05-01 Zoe Brain 2007
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I'd had some diathermy before in an area of incomplete anaesthesia - it just wasn't possible to numb that area at all - and although it hurt A LOT! it was over very quickly - my OB/GYN completed it in less than 5 seconds - and it was no worse than, say, having a burn on your arm from a hot soldering iron.
Pain in the Hip Pocket Nerve Zoe Brain 2007
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This kind of radiation had already been used in diathermy, or deep heat treatment for patients with arthritis, as well as in communications and navigation.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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