Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That branch of science which treats of electric phenomena produced through physiological agencies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) That branch of physiology which treats of electric phenomena produced through physiological agencies; it is especially concerned with electrical impulses generated by and conducted between nerves.
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They consist of nerve impulses repeated more or less rapidly, impulses which differ in no way from those already studied by the classical methods of electro-physiology.
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Beginning with Arago's and Faraday's discoveries he developed by ingenious experiments our knowledge of electrostatics, electro-dynamics, induced currents, and the like, but his greatest achievements however were in the field of electro-physiology, with frogs, torpedoes, and the like.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Friedrich Wilhelm Pfluger (b. 1829) with the gases of the blood, processes of oxidation in the body; Ewald Hering (b. 1834) with the theory of self-regulation of the act breathing sensitiveness of retina to colours, and Theodor Wilhlem Engelman (b. 1834), with electro-physiology, motion of the ciliary epithelium, physiology of the heart and of the organs of sense.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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We certainly saw what everyone in the industry have seen with a decrease in cardiac CAT and electro-physiology procedures and cardiovascular surgery.
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