diathermy machine

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   a medical instrument for local heating of bodily tissues for medical purposes

   Broadermedical instrument

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Questions about diathermy machine

What does diathermy machine mean?

diathermy machine means "a medical instrument for local heating of bodily tissues for medical purposes".

Is diathermy machine a common word?

diathermy machine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.