faradism

faradism

English

Etymology

farad +‎ -ism

Noun

faradism (plural faradisms)

1. (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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for faradism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)