TENS

[ tenz ]

nounMedicine/Medical.
  1. a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.

Origin of TENS

1
t(ranscutaneous)e(lectrical)n(erve)s(timulator)

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How to use TENS in a sentence

  • A few hundreds of Europeans would strive to keep at bay TENS of thousands of eager rebels.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy
  • The 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 Davis
  • They were the school-masters of thousands and TENS of thousands, perpetuating their ideas to remotest generations.

  • The infidels are closing round, and dark as it is we can hear the hoof-beats of TENS of thousands.

    God Wills It! | William Stearns Davis
  • Even today TENS of thousands of educated men regard him as a monomaniac concerning the abolition of slavery.

British Dictionary definitions for TENS

TENS

/ (tɛnz) /


n acronym for
  1. 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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