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Definition of Electrodes
1. electrode [n] - See also: electrode
Medical Definition of Electrodes
1. Mediums used between an electric conductor and the object to which the current is to be applied. In electrotherapy, electrodes are instruments with a point or surface from which to transmit electric current to the body of a patient or to another instrument; in electrodiagnosis, they are needles or metal plates used to stimulate or record the electrical activity of tissue. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Electrodes
Literary usage of Electrodes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"When there are four electrodes, two of each kind on an unlimited sheet, an
equipotential curve is given by the equation, rr1 = crfr'. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In order to separate the fluids at the two electrodes, various forms of apparatus
have been employed. For fused electrolytes a W-shaped tube, ..."
3. Journal by Institution of Electrical Engineers Radio Section (1874)
"The electrodes experimented on were fixed air-tight in the ends of strong ...
In the first experiments electrodes of iron, nickel, and copper were used. ..."
4. American Journal of Physiology by American Physiological Society (1887- ). (1913)
"electrodes (Figs 2 and 3); in short, the stimuli as delivered by the platinum
electrodes were physiologically stronger than with non- polarizable electrodes ..."
5. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1910)
"By AIEE THE PROPORTIONING OF electrodes FOR FURNACES BY CARL BERING Introductory.
The usual rules for proportioning electrodes for electric furnaces have ..."
6. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"(this is placea on Non-polarizable electrodes.—In connecting a muscle or nerve
to an electrometer or galvanometer it is necessary that the leading off ..."
7. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1904)
"The cause of polarization appears to be the existence at the electrodes of the
... The surfaces of the electrodes are thus rendered electrically different, ..."
8. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"RR SHANNON Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson Electrochemical
Tools Ion-Selective electrodes. Proceedings of a symposium, Gaithersburg, ..."
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