GALVANISM
\ɡˈalvənˌɪzəm], \ɡˈalvənˌɪzəm], \ɡ_ˈa_l_v_ə_n_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of GALVANISM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.
By Oddity Software
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The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.
By Noah Webster.
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That branch of electric science which treats of currents arising from the chemical action of certain bodies placed in contact, or of an acid on a metal.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Currnet electricity arising from chemical action; a term no longer in scientific use; named from the Itallan physicist Galvani (1737 - 1798).
By James Champlin Fernald
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Called after Galvani. A series of phenomena, consisting in sensible movements, executed by animal parts, which are endowed with irritability, when placed in connexion with two metallic plates of different nature, between which a communication is established by direct contact or by means of a metallic wire. Galvanism has been employed medicinally in the same cases as electricity, and especially in neuralgic affections. It is often applied in the form of plates,-" Mansford's plates." In asthma, for example, a small blister, the size of a dollar, may be placed on the neck over the course of the phrenic and pneumogastric nerves, and another on the side, in the region of the diaphragm. One metal is placed mediately or immediately over the vesicated surface on the neck, and another over that in the side. They are then connected by means of a wire. The new nervous impression, in this way induced, is often signally beneficial.
By Robley Dunglison
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Syn. : electrogalvanism. Electricity produced by chemical action.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe