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Definition of Galvanisation

1. Noun. Stimulation with a galvanic current.

2. Noun. Stimulation that arouses a person to lively action. "The unexpected news produced a kind of galvanization of the whole team"

3. Noun. Either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting.

Definition of Galvanisation

1. Noun. (alternative form of galvanization) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Galvanisation

galvanic anodes galvanic battery galvanic cautery galvanic cell galvanic couple galvanic couples galvanic current galvanic nystagmus galvanic pile galvanic series

galvanic skin reaction galvanic skin reflex galvanic skin response galvanic threshold galvanically galvanisation (current term) galvanise galvanised galvaniser galvanisers

galvanises galvanising galvanism galvanisms galvanist galvanists galvanization galvanizations galvanize galvanized

Literary usage of Galvanisation

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

1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1877)
"galvanisation of the Cervical Sympathetic Nerve for Exophthalmic Goitre.—Dr. D'Ancona records, the case of a woman of nineteen years, who had suffered for ..."

2. A Practical Introduction to Medical Electricity by Armand de Watteville (1884)
"UNDER the title of "galvanisation of the sympathetic," there has been and is being accumulated a large amount of that kind of literature which has done so ..."

3. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1874)
"In using central galvanisation I sometimes move the negative electrode down over the abdomen and the hypogastric region, the positive being on the hack, ..."

4. Medical electricity: A Practical Handbook for Students and Practitioners by Henry Lewis Jones (1900)
"galvanisation of the cervical sympathetic. Central galvanisation. Self treatment by patients. 146. Effects of electrical treatment. ..."

5. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1873)
"I have been- trying central galvanisation lately in a number of anomalous conditions of the sensory organs, as well as in cases of well- marked neuralgia, ..."

6. Handbook of Electricity in Medicine by Hyacinthe Guilleminot (1906)
"Such a current may, therefore, be used for galvanisation. 77. The constant current from the mains.—The continuous current from the public main may be used ..."

7. Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System: Delivered at La Salpêtrière by Jean Martin Charcot (1877)
"... and galvanisation are employed. The results of these new researches are comparable ... galvanisation ..."

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