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Diathermy (medicine)


diathermy
<procedure, surgery> The heating of the body tissues due to their resistance to the passage of high-frequency electromagnetic radiation, electric currents or ultrasonic waves. In medical diathermy (thermopenetration) the tissues are warmed but not damaged, in surgical diathermy (electrocoagulation) tissue is destroyed.

Origin: Gr. Therm = heat