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单词 rheoscopic
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rheoscopicadj.

Brit. /ˌriːəˈskɒpɪk/, U.S. /ˌriəˈskɑpɪk/
Forms: 1800s reoscopic, 1800s– rheoscopic.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rheo- comb. form, -scopic comb. form, rheoscope n.
Etymology: < rheo- comb. form + -scopic comb. form. Compare earlier rheoscope n. In sense 1 after French rhéoscopique (1842 or earlier); in rheoscopic frog after French grenouille rhéoscopique (E. du Bois-Raymond 1850, in Ann. de chim. et de physique 30 184).
1. Designating a preparation of a muscle and attached nerve of a frog used for detecting electric currents; of or relating to such a preparation; esp. in rheoscopic frog. Cf. physiological rheoscope n. at physiological adj. Compounds. Now historical.
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electromotive1800
neuroelectric1843
bioelectric1849
rheoscopic1851
anelectrotonic1862
monophasic1888
off1903
on1903
bioelectrical1910
neuroelectrical1914
rheobasic1917
myoelectric1955
myoelectrical1970
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electricity in living organisms > [adjective] > of currents > in nerves of frogs
rheoscopic1851
1851 Buffalo Med. Jrnl. 6 518 Nobili has himself indicated the habit of the frog, which M. Matteucci afterwards, denominated the galvanoscopic frog,..and which Du Bois Reymond has since called the rheoscopic frog.
1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. 107 (note) The absence of tetanus in a rheoscopic muscle.
1922 W. H. Howell Text-bk. Physiol. (ed. 8) iv. 107 The rheoscopic preparation may be used very beautifully to demonstrate the action current in the contracting heart muscle.
1983 Med. Instrumentation 17 235 The rheoscopic frog, an isolated nerve-muscle preparation from the leg of a frog,..was used for more than half of the 19th century as a biological galvanometer.
2003 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 36 266 Considering the rheoscopic frog's advantages as a detector of animal electricity, one wonders why du Bois-Reymond bothered with a galvanometer at all.
2. Capable of detecting an electric current (as opposed to measuring it); relating to such detection. Now rare.
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rheoscopic1852
1852 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos. & Astron. II. ii. 383 Such an apparatus would be reoscopic, but not reometric.
1856 W. S. Harris Rudimentary Treat. Galvanism iii. 96 The relations between the intensity and quantity of the current and rheoscopic deflections.
1904 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 467 A rheoscopic lamp..is in the electric circuit, not for illumination but for signalling the interruption of current.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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