electro-, electr-, electri-

1. A flexible sheet of resistance coils used for applying heat to the surface of the body.
2. A reference to the production of heat from electricity.

1. Relating to both electricity and heat, particularly to heat produced by electrical current.
2. A reference to an electric blanket containing resistance heaters for heating tissue and relieving pain.

A process in which electrical energy is directly converted into heat energy.

1. A process in which an electric current is used to produce heat.
2. Used to generate higher temperatures than can be produced by combustion processes.

In facsimile, a technique in which an image is produced on a recording medium by heat generated by electronic signals.

Therapeutic heating of tissues produced by the passage through them of electric currents.

The modified condition of a motor nerve under the influence of a constant galvanic current.

Electromyography (recording and study of the intrinsic electrical properties of the skeletal muscle) in which the action potentials produced by peristalsis (rippling motions of muscles) of the ureter are recorded.

A record of the electric changes occurring in the vagus nerve.

The vagus nerve supplies nerve fibers to the pharynx (throat), larynx (voice box), trachea (windpipe), lungs, heart, esophagus, and the intestinal tract as far as the transverse portion of the colon. This nerve also brings sensory information back to the brain from the ear, tongue, pharynx, and larynx.

The term vagus (Latin for "wandering") is appropriate because the "vagus nerve" wanders all the way down from the brainstem to the colon, a long wandering way.