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n. Direct-current electricity, especially when produced chemically. Also called voltaism.

n. Therapeutic application of direct-current electricity, especially the electric stimulation of nerves and muscle.

n. The chemical generation of electricity.

n. The therapeutic use of electricity.

n. Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.

n. The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.

n. That branch of the science of electricity which treats of electric currents more especially as arising from chemical action, as from the combination of metals with acids.

n. In medicine, the application of an electric current from a number of cells: in distinction from faradism or the use of a series of brief alternating currents from an induction-coil, and from franklinism or the charging from a frictional or Holtz machine.

n. the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)

n. electricity produced by chemical action

"This action was long called galvanism, after this observer, not, however, that he was absolutely the first to notice a fact of which he was but a re-discoverer -- Swammerdam as long ago as 1658 having observed such motions."

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