TENS
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
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It happened and it was a group of maybe 200 in a movement that has drawn TENS of thousands in New York alone.
And it depends on grand juries who act as a conveyor belt, quickly funneling TENS of thousands of young Black men into prison.
TENS of thousands of civilians still live in the city, starving, with limited food and water.
Remembering Kobani Before The Siege | Mustafa Abdi, Movements.Org, Advancing Human Rights | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFive, the TENS or arguably hundreds of millions of dollars in dark money that flowed from corporate sources into GOP coffers.
Even a government that has turned two blind eyes can hear the clamoring of TENS of thousands of demonstrators.
A few hundreds of Europeans would strive to keep at bay TENS of thousands of eager rebels.
The Red Year | Louis TracyThe great axe was swinging over his head; and as it poised, first De Carnac, then Nasr, then the rest by TENS cleared the wall.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisThey were the school-masters of thousands and TENS of thousands, perpetuating their ideas to remotest generations.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordThe infidels are closing round, and dark as it is we can hear the hoof-beats of TENS of thousands.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisEven today TENS of thousands of educated men regard him as a monomaniac concerning the abolition of slavery.
The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It | Rev. Samuel Vanderlip Leech
British Dictionary definitions for TENS
/ (tɛnz) /
transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation: the application of low-voltage electric impulses to the skin to relieve rheumatic pain and provide some pain relief in labour. The pulses are said to stimulate the release of pain-killing endorphins
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