static c. galvanic c

which is broken and closed again at short intervals; the term is sometimes employed to designate a faradic c. as distinguished from a galvanic c. magnetoelectric C. A faradic c. generated by the action of a magnet, monophasic action c. The action c. obtained when one electrode from the galvanometer is placed on an uninjured surface and one on the injured surface. So-called because the c. has a simple phase, muscular c. The electrical c. which exists in an excised muscle, and is demonstrated by placing the poles of a galvanometer, one upon the normal longitudinal surface (electropositive) and one upon the cut surface (electronegative). partial c.