[ 'dʌɪəˌθə:mi ]
■ noun a medical and surgical technique involving the production of heat in a part of the body by high-frequency electric currents.
Origin
early 20th cent.: from dia- + Gk thermon 'heat'.
[ 'dʌɪəˌθə:mi ]
■ noun a medical and surgical technique involving the production of heat in a part of the body by high-frequency electric currents.
Origin
early 20th cent.: from dia- + Gk thermon 'heat'.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004