Meaning & use
Galvanism
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Electricity produced by chemical action, or the application of such electric currents to living tissue, especially for stimulation.
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Early nineteenth-century scientists used galvanism to make the muscles of dead frogs twitch.
The novel's plot drew on public fascination with galvanism and the idea of reanimating the dead.
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Named after Italian scientist Luigi Galvani, whose experiments with frog legs in the 1780s launched the study of bioelectricity.
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