Usually means: Therapeutic heating of body tissues.
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  1. diathermy: Merriam-Webster
  2. diathermy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diathermy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diathermy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diathermy: Vocabulary.com
  6. diathermy: Wordnik
  7. diathermy: Wiktionary
  8. diathermy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. diathermy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. diathermy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. diathermy: Dictionary.com
  12. Diathermy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. diathermy: Rhymezone
  14. diathermy: FreeDictionary.org
  15. diathermy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. diathermy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. diathermy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. diathermy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Diathermy: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Diathermy: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Hair Facts (No longer online)
  9. diathermy: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. diathermy: Medical dictionary
  11. Diathermy: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (diathermy)

noun:  (physics, medicine) The generation of heat using high-frequency electromagnetic currents; especially the therapeutic production of heat in tissues in order to form coagulation

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