bioelectricadj.

1849 A. Smee Elements Electro-biol. v. 55 A circuit is produced which I should think nearly as powerful as that observed in the bio-electric battery.

1909 Biol. Bull. 17 195 The so-called ‘membrane theory’ of the origin of the bio-electric currents.

1943 Electronic Engin. 15 519 The alpha rhythm..may possibly be due to the same cause as that producing slow bio-electric rhythms in other organs.

1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) I. i. 15/1 Resting bioelectric potentials were measured earlier as the difference in potential between a ‘normal’ part of a nerve or a muscle and a region that had been crushed, cut, or narcotized.

1997 D. S. Khalsa & C. Stauth Brain Longevity xviii. 365 Many Western analysts conceive of ch'i, or kundalini, as bioelectric energy, much like the bioelectric energy that powers your neurons.

2002 P. Thomas What works, what Doesn't xi. 182 Every movement of the body, no matter how small, creates bioelectric signals that run through the connective tissue.