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noun electricity produced by chemical action
noun the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
originFrom French galvanisme, after physiologist Luigi Alyisio Galvani (1737โ1798) + -isme. By surface analysis, galvano- + -ism.
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