Definition of Cataphoresis

1. Noun. The motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode.


Definition of Cataphoresis

1. Noun. electrophoresis ¹

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Definition of Cataphoresis

1. [n -RESES]

Medical Definition of Cataphoresis

1. Movement of positively charged particles (cations) in a solution or suspension toward the cathode in electrophoresis. Compare: anaphoresis. Origin: cata-+ G. Phoresis, a being carried (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cataphoresis

catapasms
catapeltic
catapetalous
cataphasia
cataphatic
cataphatically
cataphatism
cataphile
cataphiles
cataphonic
cataphonics
cataphor
cataphora
cataphoras
cataphoreses
cataphoresis (current term)
cataphoretic
cataphoric
cataphract
cataphractic
cataphracts
cataphyll
cataphyllary leave
cataphylls
cataphysical
cataplasia
cataplasm
cataplasms
cataplastic

Literary usage of Cataphoresis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1891)
"COCAINE AN/ESTHESIA OBTAINED BY MEANS OF cataphoresis. The "Medical News," November 15, 1890, quoting from the "Lancet," gives Dr. Arthur Harries' ..."

2. Theoretical and Physical Chemistry by Samuel Lawrence Bigelow (1912)
"cataphoresis. Under the influence of a difference in potential, ... This phenomenon is called cataphoresis. Most particles suspended in water, ..."

3. Conservative Gynecology and Electro-therapeutics: A Practical Treatise on by George Betton Massey (1909)
"Another unsuitable form of breast cancer for cataphoresis is that known as cancer en cuirass, where the infected cells are ..."

4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1895)
"... cases on which this new treatment of. morbid growths is mainly based I must explain what I mean by local electrolysis and zinc-amalgam cataphoresis, ..."

5. The Nature of Solution by Harry Clary Jones, Ebenezer Emmet Reed (1917)
"A few of the results1 obtained in the study of cataphoresis are given below. Diameter of for unit potential Velocity cm./sec. Suspended substance the parts ..."

6. Electricity in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Nose, Throat by William Scheppegrell (1898)
"Some writers explain cataphoresis on the principle of osmosis. ... The theory that cataphoresis is due to a purely physical action of the current, ..."

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