Relating to the application of electrical current to living tissue, especially in medical contexts.
From electro- + vital (from Latin vitalis, relating to life). A rare medical term from the 19th-20th centuries for electrical treatments and diagnostics.
Early electrovital experiments were part of the wild frontier of medical electricity—doctors used electrical shocks and stimulation hoping to cure everything from depression to paralysis, setting the stage for modern treatments like pacemakers.
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