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Alternative forms

• faradisation

Noun

faradization ‎(countable and uncountable, plural faradizations)

1. (medicine, obsolete) The therapeutic application of the faradic, or induced, electrical current.
   • 1851, Dr. Duchenne, “The Physiological and Therapeutical Properties of Statical, Galvanic, and Faradic Electricity”, in The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, volume 7, page 301:

     Thus, Galvani left his name to electricity by contact; and with equal justice, in my opinion, the name of Faraday may be bestowed on electricity by induction. Consequently, I propose that this electricity by called Faradism, and its application, Faradization.

   • 1857 August 22, The Lancet London, page 189:

     As I have already stated, many cases of nervous deafness, which often results only from relaxation of the tympanum, have been cured by Faradization.

   • 1881, Alphonse David Rockwell, A Practical Treatise on the Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity, page 385:

     Comparing the effects of central galvanization with those of general faradization, we find that both are powerful tonics, and are adapted for conditions of debility, by whatever names they may be known.

   • 1887, Homœopathic Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Pediatrics, page 342:

     Such is the rôle of Faradization, which applied in the uterus in a proper way, preceded and followed by antiseptic injection, constitutes the true interstitial massage, provocative of contraction of all the unstriped muscular fibres, exciting and hastening the circulation, accelerating the absorptions of the exudatino and correcting also a languid and perverted nutrition.

   • 1888, The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, page 979:

     After three uterine faradizations, a patient commenced to menstruate after seven years of amenorrhea, and had continued regular ever since.

Related terms

• faradize

Synonyms

• faradism (rare)