ModL < cata- + Gr phorēsis, a bearing < pherein, bear1
cataphoresis in American English
(ˌkætəfəˈrisɪs)
noun
1. Medicine
the causing of medicinal substances to pass through or into living tissues in the direction of flow of a positive electric current
2. Physical Chemistry
electrophoresis
Derived forms
cataphoretic (ˌkætəfəˈretɪk)
adjective
cataphoretically
adverb
Word origin
[1885–90; ‹ NL, equiv. to cata-cata- + NGk phórēsis a being borne, equiv. to phorē- (var. s. of phérein to bear1, carry) + -sis-sis]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: booster, classified, reactor, retread, twofer-sis is a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form from verbsabstract nouns of action, process, state, condition, etc. Other words that use theaffix -sis include: analysis, anamnesis, anamorphosis, crisis, symbiosis