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The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.

Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects. Electro-motive force (Physics), the force which produces, or tends to produce, electricity, or an electric current; sometimes used to express the degree of electrification as equivalent…

Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.

Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other.

Pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by change of action in a living organism.

That branch of physiology which treats of electric phenomena produced through physiological agencies.

Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.

other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative.

See Electropuncture.

An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.

Same as Electrotype.

Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.

The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.

The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.

That branch of electrical science which treats of the effect of an electric current upon the temperature of a conductor, or a part of a circuit composed of two different metals.

A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of thi…

Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.

The theory that the functions of living organisms are dependent upon electricity or a kindred force.

To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n.

The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.