electro-, electr-, electri-

An appendectomy using an electric cautery or similar device.

An apparatus for measuring the weight bearing period of limbs during walking.

The graphic process by which an electrobasograph is made; used for gait analysis.

A rarely used method of determining the presence, or absence, of life in an animal organism by using a current of electricity.

1. Graphic record of the heart's integrated action currents obtained with the electrocardiograph.
2. A record of the electric currents produced in the body by the heart-beats of a patient.

An instrument for recording the potential of the electrical currents that traverse the heart and initiate its contraction.

1. A method of recording electrical currents traversing the heart muscle just prior to each heart beat.
2. The study and interpretation of electrocardiograms.

The record obtained by electrocardiophonography (a method of electrically recording the heart sounds).

A reference to a method of electrically recording the sounds of the heart.

The cauterization of tissue with an electrocautery.

1. The cauterisation of tissue using electric current to generate heat.
2. A hand-held, needlelike cautery heated by an electric current.
2. The process of cutting and cauterizing skin simultaneously, or coagulating blood from vessels around a surgical incision by using an electrical-cautery instrument.

1. The branch of science and technology that deals with the transformations between chemical reactions and electrical energy.
2. A branch of chemistry that studies chemical change associated with electrons and electricity.