Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Faradization.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The form of electricity furnished by a faradic machine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine, dated Treatment with
faradic electricity ;faradization .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Faradic current (faradism) is produced from an interrupted direct current (DC), derived either from batteries or rectified mains current.
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Faradic current (faradism) is produced from an interrupted direct current (DC), derived either from batteries or rectified mains current.
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This triggered a faradism of excitement in the roadhouse for whether he expressed it or not, each adult human inhabitant of the Kendrick Memorial was anxiously awaiting word from the Vatican.
Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971
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In the present stage of electric science, the conviction has become very general among experimenters that galvanism, magnetism, faradism, frictional electricity and the electricity of the storm-cloud are, in their essential nature, one and the same; being diversified in appearance and effects by the different modes and circumstances of their development.
A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark
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Equally unacquainted are they generally with the diverse physiological action of the several modifications of the electric force -- galvanism, magnetism, faradism, and frictional electricity.
A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark
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P. xix & P. 36. "faradaism" amended to _faradism_.
A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark
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It would appear to be established that if a muscle reacts to faradism it will recover, but the contrary proposition does not follow.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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However, there are occasional, though very rare, cases in which it is impossible to use faradism at all by reason of the insomnia and nervousness which result even after very careful and gentle application of the current.
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria John K. [Editor] Mitchell 1871
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