{"term":{"id":"12145","title":"transcutaneous electronic nerve stimulation","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - transcutaneous electronic nerve stimulation","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.12145","code":"12145","status":"current","acronym":"<em>acronym<\/em>: TENS","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Electrical stimulus applied across the skin to excite nerves for therapeutic purposes.","notes":{"1":"Most often used to control pain."},"links":[{"term":"nerves","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11909"},{"term":"pain","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11983"},{"term":"stimulus","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/12094"}],"sources":["PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 913 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2015-0103)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/12145\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/12145\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/12145\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'transcutaneous electronic nerve stimulation' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.12145","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-09T19:02:10+00:00"}}