1.0Glossaryhttps://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossaryGlossaryhttps://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/author/adminglossary/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="kmVDqtLiSt"><a href="https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/galvanism/">Galvanism</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/galvanism/embed/#?secret=kmVDqtLiSt" width="600" height="338" title="“Galvanism” — Glossary" data-secret="kmVDqtLiSt" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> Induction of an electrical current between two materials with different electronegativities. This can produce nerve or muscle stimulations. An accelerated oxidization of a metal from an electrical interaction with a more noble metal in a corrosive electrolyte. The consequential current flow can create nerve stimulation, an electric shock‐like experience, or a disagreeable taste.A treatment using low voltage electricity.Any form of medical treatment using electricity. Interrupted galvanism is a form of electrotherapy in which direct current, in impulses lasting for 30 to 100 milliseconds, is used to stimulate the activity of nerves or the muscles they supply.In dentistry, an electrochemical reaction occurring in the mouth when dissimilar metals used to restore teeth come into contact, producing a direct electric current that may cause pain.Known alternately as bioelectricity or electrophysiology, the study of the electromagnetic nature of living organisms. It stems from the work of Luigi Galvani (1737-98), 18th-century physician and professor of anatomy who indirectly discovered animal electricity. When in 1792 Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) proved that Galvani’s famous kicking frog-legs experiment was the product of bimetallic conductivity, and not of true animal electricity, Galvani touched the skinned leg of a dissected frog to the animal’s exposed spinal cord, causing the other leg to twitch. Galvani, believed that he had proved the vitalist theory of the anima, an electromagnetic and quasi-spiritual force that pulsed through living material. He had actually discovered the phenomenon known as the current of injury, which is the electric nervous signal that pulses from damaged tissues.The electric nature of the body was largely ignored or disbelieved for long periods following Galvani's experiment, especially in the wake of further biological discoveries supporting the mechanistic standpoint of a purely chemical physiology.Electricity produced through chemical reactions.