Word Meanings - CATELECTROTONUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

Related words: (words related to CATELECTROTONUS)

• NEGATIVE
  Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. (more info) 1. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• NERVELESSNESS
  The state of being nerveless.
• NEGATIVENESS; NEGATIVITY
  The quality or state of being negative.
• IRRITABILITY
  A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• INCREASINGLY
  More and more.
• CATHODE
  The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode. Faraday. Cathode ray , a
• NERVELESS
  1. Destitute of nerves. 2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.
• THROUGH
  thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• PASSAGEWAY
  A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
• CONDITIONATE
  Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
• NEGATIVELY
  1. In a negative manner; with or by denial. "He answered negatively." Boyle. 2. In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively. negatively, by showing wherein it does not consist, and positively, by
• PASSAGE
  1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of
• CONDITION
  A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of
• CONDITIONLY
  Conditionally.
• ELECTRICITY
  1. A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by
• NERVED
  Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins. Gray. (more info) 1. Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved.
• ELECTRODE
  The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• JAPAN CURRENT
  A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
• PHASING CURRENT
  The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
• PERCURRENT
  Running through the entire length.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• SNEAK CURRENT
  A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
• PHOTO-ELECTRICITY
  Electricity produced by light.
• OSCILLATING CURRENT
  A current alternating in direction.
• NONRECURRENT
  Not recurring.