Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
diathermanous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Affording a free passage to heat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine Of or pertaining to
diathermy - adjective That allows the free passage of
heat
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Examples
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In one, a patient with secondary glaucoma, prior to the diathermic application the tension was 37½ mm., after the passage of the current it had fallen to 28 mm., but the next morning the tension rose to 45 mm. In a patient with chronic glaucoma no definite alteration of tension could be found.
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Sulphur dissolved in bisulphide of carbon was found almost perfectly diathermic.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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It is also a subject of discussion whether rock-salt is equally diathermic to all kinds of calorific rays; the differences affirmed to exist by some investigators being ascribed by others to differences of incidence from the various sources employed.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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For an alcohol flame Knoblauch and Melloni found glass to be less transparent than for the same flame with a platinum spiral immersed in it; but Melloni afterwards showed that the result was not general -- that black glass and black mica were decidedly more diathermic to the radiation from the pure alcohol flame.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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The latter are far more diathermic than the former.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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The surgeon then began to cut her open with a diathermic needle, but the implement, which uses an electrical current, emitted a spark which set the alcohol solution alight, engulfing the woman in flames.
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The surgeon then began to cut her open with a diathermic needle, but the implement, which uses an electrical current, emitted a spark which set the alcohol solution alight, engulfing the woman in flames.
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The surgeon then began to cut her open with a diathermic needle, but the implement, which uses an electrical current, emitted a spark which set the alcohol solution alight, engulfing the woman in flames.
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The surgeon then began to cut her open with a diathermic needle, but the implement, which uses an electrical current, emitted a spark which set the alcohol solution alight, engulfing the woman in flames.
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The Siemens Ecoflash thin layer dryer is designed to dry biosolids using either diathermic oil or saturated steam.
innovations-report 2010
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