"oscilloclast" meaning in English

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          "text": "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.",
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        "A device that was supposed to diagnose cancer from tissue samples."
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        "(pseudoscience, historical) A device that was supposed to diagnose cancer from tissue samples."
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          "word": "radioclast"
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  "word": "oscilloclast"
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