"electroconvulsive therapy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: electroconvulsive therapies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} electroconvulsive therapy (usually uncountable, plural electroconvulsive therapies)
  1. (medicine) A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Electricity, Medicine Synonyms: ECT, Edison's medicine, electroshock therapy, shock therapy Coordinate_terms: insulin shock therapy (english: an outdated therapy) Translations (biomedical therapy using electrical current): 電痙攣療法 (Chinese Mandarin), 电痉挛疗法 (diànjìngluán liáofǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), 電休克療法 (Chinese Mandarin), 电休克疗法 (diànxiūkè liáofǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), 電抽搐治療 (Chinese Mandarin), 电抽搐治疗 (diànchōuchù zhìliáo) (Chinese Mandarin), 電驚厥療法 (Chinese Mandarin), 电惊厥疗法 (diànjīngjué liáofǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), elektrokonvulzivní terapie [feminine] (Czech), elektroconvulsietherapie [feminine] (Dutch), elektroshocktherapie [feminine] (Dutch), elektroshock [masculine] (Dutch), sähköshokkihoito (Finnish), électroconvulsivothérapie (French), ηλεκτροσπασμοθεραπεία (ilektrospasmotherapeía) [feminine] (Greek), elektrosokk-terápia (Hungarian), elettroshockterapia [feminine] (Italian), terapia eletroconvulsiva [feminine] (Portuguese), terapia de choque [feminine] (Portuguese), terapie electroconvulsivă (Romanian), terapie-electroșoc (Romanian), электросудорожная терапи́я (elektrosudorožnaja terapíja) [feminine] (Russian), terapia electroconvulsiva [feminine] (Spanish), elchock [common-gender] (Swedish)

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