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galvanoscope|ˈgælvənəʊˌskəʊp|
[f. galvano- + Gr. -σκόπος looker.]
An instrument for ascertaining the presence of galvanic electricity.
1832Nat. Philos., Electro-Magnet. viii. §111. 39 (U.K.S.) An instrument for detecting small quantities of galvanic electricity, or Galvanoscope. 1866R. M. Ferguson Electr. 141 The Astatic Galvanometer..is used either simply as a galvanoscope, to discover the existence of a current, or as a measurer of the strengths of weak currents.
Hence ˌgalvanoˈscopic a., pertaining to, or of the nature of, a galvanoscope; galvanoscopic frog, a frog used as a galvanoscope. galvaˈnoscopy, ‘the employment of galvanism in physiological experiment or for diagnostic purposes; also, the use of the galvanoscope’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1885).
1839–47Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 720/2 This preparation is the galvanoscopic frog. 1843Grove Contrib. Sc. in Corr. Phys. Forces (1874) 266 Here we have no slight galvanoscopic effects. 1870Eng. Mech. 11 Mar. 626/1 Galvanoscopic Lantern. 1873A. Flint Nerv. Syst. iii. 113 If the nerve of a galvanoscopic frog's leg be placed in contact with the muscles of another leg prepared in the same way. |