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Galvani

gal·vani

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noun

1.

Italian physiologist noted for his discovery that frogs'' muscles contracted in an electric field (which led to the galvanic cell) (1737-1798)

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From Italian Galvani, from Galvano + -i (“forming surnames”), from galba (“larva, worm, fatty”), from Gaulish of uncertain meaning. Doublet of Galvano, Galvan, and Galvao.

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