torpedo fish

An alternate name for this group of Rays is Torpedo fish.

The narrative continues with Cavendish's investigations of the electric shock received from the torpedo fish.

Microscopical observations involving the electric organs of torpedo fish.

Henry Cavendish discovered hydrogen, weighed the earth and investigated the powerful electric shocks delivered by the torpedo fish.

He also made contributions involving research of peripheral nerve fiber terminations in vertebrates (e.g. torpedo fish).

In ancient Rome, patients with unbearable head pain were sometimes treated with jolts from the electricity-producing black torpedo fish, or electric ray.

Also, we find that torpedoing fish headfirst into the water upon release stimulates them more so than releasing them gently laterally.

The term "torpedo" comes from the Torpedo fish, which is a type of ray that delivers an electric shock to stun its prey.

In the 19th century, mines were called torpedoes, a name probably conferred by Dennis Fletcher after the torpedo fish, which gives powerful electric shocks.

But recently, electrical or electromagnetic devices that hark back to the head-zapping torpedo fish have come into vogue among the country's most prominent migraine researchers.

Or is it the torpedo fish which is so torpid that is hardly ever flicks a fin or does anything at all to break its smooth lines.

The 1st recorded use of electrical stimulation for pain relief goes back to 46 AD, when Scribonius Largus used torpedo fish (electric ray) for relieving headaches.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1770 and awarded their Copley Medal in 1773 for a paper on the electrical properties of torpedo fish.

Scribonius Largus, a Roman physician, recorded the use of torpedo fish for treatment of headaches and gout in his Compositiones Medicae of 46 AD.

Also notice how, when Claggart is staring Billy down, the narrator compares his expression to a "mesmeristic glance of... serpent fascination" and then to the "paralyzing lurch of the torpedo fish."

Über die "intracellulären Fäden" der Ganglienzellen des elektrischen Lappens von Torpedo, 1902 - On "intracellular threads", the ganglion cells of the electrical lobes of torpedo fish.

In his dialogue Meno, Plato has the character Meno accuse Socrates of "stunning" people with his puzzling questions, in a manner similar to the way the torpedo fish stuns with electricity.

Fishes depicted include bream, perch, torpedo fish, tuna, flying fish, puffer fish, scorpion fish, squid, cuttlefish, octopus, scallop, clam, dentalia, murex, sea snail, shrimp, crab, dolphin, hippocamp, etc.

The narrow, top-secret "torpedo fish," built in Mobile, Ala., by Horace Hunley from cast iron and wrought iron with a hand-cranked propeller, arrived in Charleston in 1863 while the city was under siege by Union troops and ships.

And if I may venture to make a jest upon you, you seem to me both in your appearance and in your power over others to be very like the flat torpedo fish, who torpifies those who come near him and touch him, as you have now torpified me, I think.

Über den Ursprung des Nervus vagus bei Selachiern mit Berücksichtigung der Lobi electrici von Torpedo, 1878 - On the origin of the vagus nerve in Selachians with consideration of the Lobi Electrici of torpedo fish.

The torpedo fish, or electric ray, appears continuously in premodern natural histories as a magical creature, and its ability to numb fishermen without seeming to touch them was a significant source of evidence for the belief in occult qualities in nature during the ages before the discovery of electricity as an explanatory mode.