Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of electrifying. Also spelled
electrisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of electrizing; electrification.
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- noun
electrification
Etymologies
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Examples
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The stimulant and tonic effects under consideration, although shared to some extent by other methods of electrization, are here far more comprehensive and pronounced, a fact which is not surprising, when we reflect that in the electric bath not only are all the organs
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While I have thus had frequent occasion here to employ local electrization, I have had but one case of acute rheumatism where I had the opportunity to employ the baths.
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The second difference between the electric bath and all other methods of applying electricity is, that _the bath is the only method by means of which general electrization can be realized_.
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This proceeding should by no means be looked upon as a “local” method of electrization; on the contrary, it is just as much “general” as the ordinary electric bath.
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The most delicate, the aged and children alike, bear them with far more ease, comfort and impunity than any ordinary warm bath, or any but the mildest local electrization.
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Local electrization is accompanied by like phenomena, _when we happen to strike the right spot_.
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Where the manifestations of the disease are limited to a single joint, or at best a very few joints, or where we have to do with a case of muscular rheumatism — to one group of muscles, local electrization, as
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I have already (p. 47) spoken of the comparative merits in this disease of local and general electrization.
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As I had strong suspicions that syphilis was at the bottom of the trouble, I also administered iodide of potassium in gradually increasing doses — not however until electrization and strychnia employed for some weeks had failed to do any good.
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Accepting this as matter of fact, let us next inquire where and why we are to give _general_ electrization — in other words, the electric bath — the preference over local applications.
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