1902 Jrnl. Physical Therapeutics 3 125 In view of this fact that certain substances are actuated to seek the anode while others are moved toward the cathode when a difference of potential is established in the liquid in which they are dissolved, or suspended, it would seem that a generic term, as phoresis, should be chosen to designate the therapeutic employment of this physical action of a direct electric current, a term which would comprehend in its meaning the moving power of the current in whatever direction upon particles suspended in it or held in solution by it, while the specific terms, cataphoresis and anaphoresis would, as now, indicate the direction taken by certain of these substances.

1911 C. S. Potts Electr. (1912) ii. 50 The [ionic] migration will take place even through a porous barrier or membrane, in which case it is known as electric osmosis or phoresis.

1936 H. H. U. Cross Electr. in Therapeutics vii. 184 The essential distinction between the modern ionic medication and the older cataphoresis (or simply phoresis).

1958 Clinica Chimica Acta 3 301 After phoresis, the paper strips are dried and clamped together.

1985 Radiation Res. 104 293 At 400 V..the corrected increase (corrected for the phoresis of DNA on the stainless steel plates) in the G-value yield is 38%.

2003 Atmopheric Environment 37 3606/1 The main phenomena affecting collision efficiency between falling droplets and aerosol particles are..Brownian diffusion, phoresis caused by thermal or concentration gradients, turbulent effects and electrical forces.

1951 J. G. Baer Ecol. Animal Parasites i. 1/1 The varied aspects of parasitism, symbiosis, commensalism, and phoresis..are truly within the scope of ecology.

1962 J. D. Smyth Introd. Animal Parasitol. i. 3 In phoresis..there is no metabolic dependence of either of the associates on the other.

1982 Amer. Midland Naturalist 108 386 The use of a large array of host fish will concomitantly yield a variation in dispersal phoresis due to differential host behaviorial [sic] patterns.

2004 Systematic Biol. 53 154 Biogeography may be more important than host associations in structuring louse populations and species, particularly when life history (e.g., hole nesting) or parasite life history (e.g., phoresis) might promote frequent host switching events between syntopic host species.