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galvanic (medicine)


galvanic


Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.

<physics> Galvanic battery, the voltaic pile. See Voltaic.

Origin: From Galvani, a professor of physiology at Bologna, on account of his connection (about 1780) with the discovery of dynamical or current electricity: cf. F. Galvanique.

Source: Websters Dictionary


thermanesthesia (medicine)


thermanesthesia -->
thermoanesthesia


Loss of the temperature sense or of the ability to distinguish between heat and cold; insensibility to heat or to temperature changes.

Synonym: ardanesthesia, thermanalgesia, thermanesthesia, thermoanalgesia.

Origin: thermo-+ G. An-priv. + aisthesis, sensation