Crossword-Solution: DIATHERMY
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| Clue | Answers |
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| HEAT production by high frequency electric current | 1 answer |
| Medical and surgical use of heat | 1 answer |
| local heating of the body tissues with an electric current for medical or surgical purposes | 1 answer |
| Heat treatment | 2 answers |
| FORCEPS, type of | 6 answers |
| Burning | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with DIATHERMY (5)
Reduction of tension by means of various mechanical measures, notably massage, vibration massage and suction massage, and by means of electricity and diathermy.
The high-frequency apparatus already referred to in connection with diathermy is valuable for the treatment of rheumatism in its earlier stages, and for the stimulation of the scalp in hair treatment.
Babinski and Froment have tried thermotherapy and diathermy in these cases, finding that the paralysis diminishes and becomes partial if the limb is warm, although it is important that it should not become too warm.
Sometimes a few treatments with diathermy will produce movements in a case of long standing paralysis.
The idea of the diathermy is that the deeply penetrating heat affects blood vessels and muscles, bringing about a vasodilatation or even a direct addition of needed calories.
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).