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electroconvulsive therapy en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient, with the noted side effect of memory loss.
   • The therapeutic effects of low and high energy electroconvulsive therapies are quite different.

Forms

Coordinates

insulin shock therapy

Synonyms

shock therapy · electroshock therapy · Edison's medicine · ECT

Translations (23)

it elettroshockterapia (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · nl elektroshocktherapie (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · ca electroxoc (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · pl elektrowstrząsy (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · es terapia electroconvulsiva (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · pl terapia elektrowstrząsowa (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · pt terapia de choque (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · ro terapie-electroșoc (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · fi sähköshokkihoito (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · cmn 電抽搐治療 /电抽搐治疗 (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · sv elchock (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · cmn 電痙攣療法 /电痉挛疗法 (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · cmn 電驚厥療法 /电惊厥疗法 (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · pt terapia eletroconvulsiva (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · ro terapie electroconvulsivă (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · nl elektroshock (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · ru электросудорожная терапи́я (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · cmn 電休克療法 /电休克疗法 (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · fr électroconvulsivothérapie (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · el ηλεκτροσπασμοθεραπεία (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · nl elektroconvulsietherapie (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · hu elektrosokk-terápia (biomedical therapy using electrical current) · cs elektrokonvulzivní terapie (biomedical therapy using electrical current)