TENS Definition

tĕnz
noun
A technique used to relieve pain in an injured or diseased part of the body in which electrodes applied to the skin deliver intermittent stimulation to surface nerves, blocking the transmission of pain signals.
American Heritage Medicine

Plural form of ten.

Wiktionary
(poker slang) A pair of tens.
Wiktionary

The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The teens, the oneties. Short for the nineteen-tens, twenty-tens, etc.

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Origin of TENS

  • t(ranscutaneous) e(lectrical) n(erve) s(timulation)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

TENS Sentence Examples

  • The " bows " were grouped in tens and hundreds.

  • They'd been patient, setting up their ultimate victory over the course of tens of thousands of years.

  • Have you ever thought of your tens of thousands of slaves?

  • The help of the engraver had early been called in; and tens of thousands of children looked with terror and delight on execrable copperplates, which represented Christian thrusting his sword into Apollyon, or writhing in the grasp of Giant Despair.

  • There was an Indian church in Natick, at what is now called South Natick or " Oldtown," from 1660 to 1716; and for some years the community was governed, in accordance with the eighteenth chapter of Exodus, by " rulers of tens," " rulers of fifties," and " rulers of hundreds."

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