electroconvulsive therapy
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Noun edit
electroconvulsive therapy (usually uncountable, plural electroconvulsive therapies)
- (medicine) A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
- The therapeutic effects of low and high energy electroconvulsive therapies are quite different.
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Coordinate terms edit
- insulin shock therapy (an outdated therapy)
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biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Further reading edit
- electroconvulsive therapy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia