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oscilloclasts

oscilloclasts is the plural of oscilloclast.

Meaning of oscilloclast

Noun

oscilloclast (plural oscilloclasts)

  1. (historical) A device that was supposed to diagnose cancer from tissue samples.
    • That is to say, that the ailing human body would receive more vibration and a greater quantity of electricity from the work of a competent masseur using one hand than it would from a whole battery of oscilloclasts.1924, The Lancet, page 178

Questions about oscilloclasts

What is oscilloclasts the plural of?
Oscilloclasts is the plural of oscilloclast.

Words near oscilloclasts in the dictionary

  1. oscillatory reaction
  2. oscillatory reactions
  3. oscillaxanthin
  4. oscillo-
  5. oscilloclast
  6. oscilloclasts
  7. oscillogenesis
  8. oscillogram
  9. oscillograms
  10. oscillograph
  11. oscillographic

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