Unit current is one which in a wire of unit length, bent so as to form an arc of a circle of unit length of radius, would act upon a unit pole at the center of the circle with unit force. Unit length is the centimeter; unit force is the dyne. [Transcriber's note: The SI [...]

In electro-therapeutics, a current gradually increasing in strength.

These currents, as produced from existing thermo-electric batteries, are generated by low potential, and are of great constancy. The opposite junctions of the plates can be kept at constant temperatures, as by melting ice and condensing steam, so that an identical current can be reproduced at will from a thermopile. Thermo-electric currents were used by [...]

An intermittent current passing through a conductor will induce secondary alternating currents in a closed circuit near it. This secondary current will induce a tertiary current in a third closed circuit near it, and so on. The induced currents are termed as of the first, second, third and other orders. The experiment is carried out [...]

In electro-therapeutics, the currents traversing muscular or nervous tissue when at rest. Their existence is disputed.

In electro-therapeutics, the currents produced in living muscle or nerves after sudden contraction or relaxation.

A term applied to groups of currents of alternating type which constantly differ from each other by a constant proportion of periods of alternation. They are produced on a single dynamo, the winding being so contrived that two, three or more currents differing a constant amount in phase are collected from corresponding contact rings. There [...]

A current passing through a sinuous conductor.

(a) If two terminals of an active circuit are connected to two points of a thin metallic plate the current spreads over or occupies practically a considerable area of such plate, and this portion of the current is a current sheet. The general contour of the current sheet can be laid out in lines of [...]

In electro-therapeutics, a current due to stimulation of the secretory nerves.