oscilloclast
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[edit]Noun
[edit]oscilloclast (plural oscilloclasts)
- (pseudoscience, historical) A device that was supposed to diagnose cancer from tissue samples.
- 1924, The Lancet, page 178:
- 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.