Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Combining form of
galvanic or galvanism.
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Examples
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On page 214 he describes and figures an apparatus for taking the galvano-electric spark into fluid and aeriform substances.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Various
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The first applications that he attempted related to the use of electricity in surgery, a wonderfully fecund branch, but one whose importance was scarcely suspected, notwithstanding the results already obtained through the application of the insufflation pile to galvano-cautery.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various
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I ordered galvano-faradic baths, i.e. the galvanic current in the bath as an eliminative, the faradic as a tonic.
The Electric Bath George M. Schweig
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Fränkel found that removal of both ovaries in rabbits between the first and sixth days after fertilisation prevented pregnancy, and that the same result followed if the corpora lutea were merely destroyed _in situ_ by galvano-cautery.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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It is by the process of electrotyping or galvano - plastics that the copper faces for printing woodcuts are prepared, and copies made of seals or medals.
The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889
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Treatment consists in detachment, and subsequent destruction of the base; the former is accomplished by dissecting the horn away from the base or forcibly breaking it off, the latter by means of any of the well-known caustics, such as caustic potash, chloride of zinc and the galvano-cautery.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Cauterization -- with nitrate of silver, with applications of pyrogallic acid in ointment or in liquor gutta-perchæ, fifteen to thirty per cent. strength, and with solutions (cautiously employed) of caustic potash, and exceptionally with the galvano-cautery.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Thorough cauterization by means of caustic potash or the galvano-cautery; or, its extirpation by means of the curette or excision.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Treatment consists, when desired and practicable, in the removal of the growths by the knife, or in large and pedunculated tumors by the ligature or by the galvano-cautery.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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For the _prominent growths_, vaccination, the ligature, puncturing with the galvano-cautery, and excision are variously resorted to.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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