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electrode Audio
e·lec·trode [ ih-lek-trohd ]
Definitions related to electrode:
  • A small piece of metal or other conductive substance this is used to take an electric current to or from a source of power, a piece of equipment. Not to be used for patient connection.
    U.S. FDA Glossary
    U.S. Food & Drug Administration, 2021
  • Conductor by which a current enters or leaves a nonmetallic medium; in electrotherapy, electrodes are instruments with a point or surface from which to transmit electric current to the body of a patient or to another instrument; in electrodiagnosis, they are needles or metal plates.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • In medicine, a device such as a small metal plate or needle that carries electricity from an instrument to a patient for treatment or surgery. Electrodes can also carry electrical signals from muscles, brain, heart, skin, or other body parts to recording devices to help diagnose certain conditions.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Electric conductors through which electric currents enter or leave a medium, whether it be an electrolytic solution, solid, molten mass, gas, or vacuum.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (electrode device) A conductor that is designed to make contact with part of a circuit or system.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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