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faradism ‎(plural faradisms)

(medicine, dated) Treatment with faradic electricity; faradization.
- 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.
- 1916, The New England Journal of Medicine: Volume 174
  The electrical reactions now show a distinct myasthenic reaction, the orbicularis and frontal exhausting on the application of from 16 to 25 faradisms.