electrophysiology
/ɪˌlɛktrəʊfɪzɪˈɒlədʒi
/noun [mass noun]
The branch of physiology that deals with the electrical phenomena associated with nervous and other bodily activity.Many physical therapists obtain advanced specialty certification in cardiovascular and pulmonary therapy, clinical electrophysiology, geriatrics, neurology, orthopedics, pediatrics, and sports therapy....
- Research modalities such as immunohistochemistry, tissue culture, electrophysiology, and molecular biology are widely used in both disciplines.
- A basic animal neurobiology team will test each gene variant for gene-gene and gene-environment interactions at the level of behavior, pharmacology, electrophysiology and molecular biology.
Derivatives
electrophysiological
- The purpose of this study was to determine if requisite time in bed could be safely reduced by 2 hours for patients recovering from electrophysiological studies in which a femoral venous approach was used.
- Intracardiac electrophysiological studies give valuable information about normal and abnormal electrophysiology of intracardiac structures.
- A standard clinical neurological examination was performed with 3 electrophysiological methods.
electrophysiologically
- A randomized, double-blind trial compared oral corticosteroid therapy and local corticosteroid injection in 60 patients with electrophysiologically confirmed carpal tunnel syndrome.
- A systematic review looked at the usefulness of elements of the history and physical examination for the diagnosis of electrophysiologically proved carpal tunnel syndrome.
- The gating functions of channels are electrophysiologically investigated in great detail using a consistent modeling approach of transitions between active and inactive states.
electrophysiologist
- Cardiac electrophysiologists who are board certified through the American Board of Internal Medicine would be considered in most cases qualified to implant most heart rhythm devices.
- Ten years ago it could have been said that electrophysiologists were a relatively benign breed of cardiologists who did little harm but little good either.
- Close collaboration of the critical care physician and cardiologist / electrophysiologist assures that pacemakers and defibrillators are tuned to optimize the hemodynamic milieu of critically ill patients.