galvanism

See also: Galvanism

English

Galvanism: electrodes touch a frog, and the legs twitch into the upward position.

Alternative forms

• Galvanism (rare)

Etymology

From French galvanisme, after physiologist Luigi Alyisio Galvani (1737–1798) + -isme. By surface analysis, galvano- +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡælvəˌnɪzəm/

Noun

galvanism (usually uncountable, plural galvanisms)

1. The chemical generation of electricity.
2. The (therapeutic) use of electricity directly applied to the body.
   • 1831 October 15, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, “Introduction”, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], published 31 October 1831, →OCLC, page x:

     Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated; galvanism had given token of such things: perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth.

   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 101:

     The sudden application of galvanism to bands of savages may fairly rank as a new sensation, and they, thinking the wire held this strange and mysterious power, wisely left it alone.

   • 1892, Journal of Electrotherapeutics: Volume 10:

     Erb and Remak in Germany, Beard and Rockwell and Althans in America, have used it with advantage, in the forms of galvanisms and faradisms, in the treatment of joint troubles.

Translations

chemical generation of electricity

• Bulgarian: галвани́зъм m (galvanízǎm)
• Finnish: galvanismi (fi)
• French: galvanisme (fr) m
• Italian: galvanismo (it) m pl
• Macedonian: галвани́зам m (galvanízam)

therapeutic use of electricity

• Bulgarian: галвани́зъм m (galvanízǎm)
• Finnish: galvanismi (fi)
• French: galvanisme (fr) m
• Italian: galvanismo (it) m
• Macedonian: галвани́зам m (galvanízam)

See also

• galvanic
• galvanical
• galvanically

References

• OED2

Further reading

• Galvanism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French galvanisme.

Noun

galvanism n (uncountable)

1. galvanism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	galvanism	galvanismul
genitive-dative	galvanism	galvanismului
vocative	galvanismule