biomagnetismn.
/ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)ˈmaɡnᵻtɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˈmæɡnəˌtɪzəm/ 1. = mesmerism n. Now historical and rare.
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the world > the supernatural > the paranormal > [noun] > mesmerism
animal magnetism1784
magnetism1784
mesmerism1784
magnetizing1787
magnetization1801
zoomagnetism1824
tellurism1832
hypnotism1842
pathetism1843
zoistic magnetism1849
electrobiology1850
electropsychology1850
biologism1852
statuvolism1871
statuvolence1873
braidism1882
hypnosis1882
biomagnetism1887
1887 Era 2 Apr. 23/1 The world-famed pioneer of thirty years' experience in bio-magnetism, Herr Carl Hansen, the Danish-Australian exponent of ‘hypnotism’ has arrived.
1887 Science 3 June 541/2 I hope to show that the fundamental ideas of biomagnetism have..been subjected to tests by French and English investigators from which they have issued triumphant.
1964 H. Holborn Hist. Mod. Germany 1648–1840 (1982) xvii. 528 Biomagnetism, which the Austrian Franz Mesmer..invented on the eve of the French Revolution, had its greatest vogue in Germany after 1815.
2. (a) The branch of science concerned with the effect of magnetic fields on the body. (b) Medicine. The branch of science concerned with magnetic fields produced by organs in the body; (also) such magnetic fields (cf. magnetoencephalography n.).
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > magnetism > types of magnetism > [noun] > other types
permanent magnetism1782
thermo-magnetism1828
diamagnetism1850
photomagnetism1864
piezomagnetism1901
pyromagnetism1901
biomagnetism1963
speromagnetism1973
1963 Science 11 Oct. 249/1 The search for physiological effects of magnetic and electromagnetic fields has been relatively disappointing... Another promising approach to biomagnetism appears to be at the molecular level.
1967 G. W. de la Warr & D. Baker (title) Biomagnetism: preliminary studies of the effect of magnetic fields on living tissues and organs in the human body.
1981 Sci. News 5 Sept. 154/1 The study of biomagnetism, magnetic fields originating in biological systems, is slowly emerging from pseudoscience into respectability.
2002 R. Menen Magneto Therapy ii. vi. 109 The launch of Sputnik opened a new chapter in the science of biomagnetism (magneto-therapy).
2005 D. F. Warne Newnes Electr. Power Engineer's Handbk. iii. 60 Measurements in biomagnetism (investigations of electrical activity in the heart, brain and muscles).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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