a. Also cataphoric. [ad. Gr. καταφορικ-ός, f. καταφορά a bringing down, f. κατά down + φέρειν to carry.] Of the action of an electric current: Carrying a fluid along with it, producing electric osmose.
1887. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
1891. M. A. Starr, in Electr. Daily Life, 271. The second action of a continuous galvanic current is to move along with it the fluids which lie in its path. This is called its cataphoric action.
