galvanism
Americannoun
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Electricity. electricity, especially as produced by chemical action.
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Medicine/Medical. the therapeutic application of electricity to the body.
noun
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obsolete electricity, esp when produced by chemical means as in a cell or battery
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med treatment involving the application of electric currents to tissues
Etymology
Origin of galvanism
1790–1800; < French galvanisme, named after Luigi Galvani; -ism
Example Sentences
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Hatch Escapes fictionalized Shelley’s research process for “Frankenstein,” having her in the game study under a scientist to learn about anatomy and galvanism.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2023
The term's namesake, Luigi Galvani, believed that galvanism confirmed his theory of a form of energy called "animal electricity" that gives living things their life force.
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2022
Writing her imaginary story of a being jolted to life by Victor Frankenstein, Mary drew on the cutting-edge science of her time, including galvanism and electricity.
From Economist • Feb. 15, 2018
It was Percy who may have acquainted her with galvanism, which Frankenstein explicitly mentions as the key to reanimation in the 1831 edition.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 10, 2018
By experiments not on lightning, which cannot be commanded at pleasure, but on the same natural agency in a manageable form, that of artificial galvanism.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by Mill, John Stuart
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