faradic
adjEtymology From Faraday + -ic, for Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist.
1
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Of or pertaining to electricity, especially to electrical induction.
2
Of a current that is alternating, as opposed to galvanic.
- Physicians used galvanic currents, which required only a galvanic power source, and faradic treatments, which utilized an "alternating" induction coil.2005, Carolyn Thomas de la Pena, chapter 3, in The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American:
- Synonyms
- faradaic
- Derived terms
- faradization