How to Use electrophysiology in a Sentence

electrophysiology

noun
  • So the tissue becomes a little bit larger and also the electrophysiology remodels it as well.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • In AFib—which affects as many as 3% of the population, with most cases occurring in those over 65—the electrophysiology of the heart is out of whack, and its two upper chambers (the atria) fibrillate, or quiver, instead of contracting fully.
    Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Boston Scientific says the device is part of a $6 billion market for electrophysiology treatments that is growing more than 10% a year.
    Joe Carlson, Star Tribune, 24 June 2021
  • So she was quickly transported to the electrophysiology laboratory, dangling by her ankles, carried by the only man around with enough strength to do it.
    Louis F Janeira, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2012
  • The scientists were able to demonstrate capacitive control of the electrophysiology of isolated hearts, retinal tissues and sciatic nerves of rats, as well as bioelectronic cardiac sensing.
    IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2021
  • As tools to record the signals neurons use to communicate became available, researchers have tried to categorize cells by comparing their different firing patterns, the specialty of the discipline known as electrophysiology.
    Simon Makin, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Alexander Volkov of Oakwood University has been researching plant electrophysiology—and specifically Venus flytraps—for decades.
    Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Decades of work has established a clear circuitry that has largely held up in human imaging and physiology studies and in rodent studies using modern tools such as optogenetics, chemogenetics, calcium and electrophysiology tools.
    Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019
  • But these type of interventions haven’t been as possible in electrophysiology because patients couldn’t be viewed on an individual scale without extraordinarily invasive procedures that would create their own problems.
    Stephen Wunker, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • But again, the particular work that involved electrophysiology was actually done and written up by my collaborator, a very experienced electrophysiologist.
    Quanta Magazine, 14 Dec. 2020
  • He’s being evaluated by a cardiologist specializing in electrophysiology for an implantable defibrillator.
    John Benson, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2020

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