Additionally, the term electrotherapy or electromagnetic therapy has also been applied to a range of alternative medical devices and treatments. It has not been found to be effective in increasing bone healing.
The adjective form of belligerent means hostile, or inclined to fight. It can also apply to a group (e.g. belligerent nation) involved in a war. The noun belligerent is from the second definition: it is a group, or especially a country, that is actively fighting in a war.
The older sense (âwaging warâ) is generally used to refer to the actions or combatants of a nation at war, or to the nation itself (belligerent operations; belligerent troops; âthe belligerent stateâ); it is paralleled by the earliest sense of the noun, âa nation at warâ (âthe belligerents assembled at the peace conferenceâ).