Definition of "galvano" [galvano]

• Combining form of galvanic or galvanism. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The first applications that he attempted related to the use of electricity in surgery, a wonderfully fecund branch, but one whose importance was scarcely suspected, notwithstanding the results already obtained through the application of the insufflation pile to galvano-cautery."
• "On page 214 he describes and figures an apparatus for taking the galvano-electric spark into fluid and aeriform substances."
• "I ordered galvano-faradic baths, i.e. the galvanic current in the bath as an eliminative, the faradic as a tonic."