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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: medicine, sciences
Examples
- The therapeutic effects of low and high energy electroconvulsive therapies are quite different.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: electroshock, electroshock therapy, ECT
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: electrotherapy, galvanism, electric healing, electrical healing, shock therapy, shock treatment
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
electroxoc
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Chinese Mandarin:
電痙攣療法 /电痉挛疗法
(diànjìngluán liáofǎ)
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Chinese Mandarin:
電休克療法 /电休克疗法
(diànxiūkè liáofǎ)
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Chinese Mandarin:
電抽搐治療 /电抽搐治疗
(diànchōuchù zhìliáo)
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Chinese Mandarin:
電驚厥療法 /电惊厥疗法
(diànjīngjué liáofǎ)
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Czech:
elektrokonvulzivní terapie
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Dutch:
elektroconvulsietherapie
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Dutch:
elektroshocktherapie
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Dutch:
elektroshock
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Finnish:
sähköshokkihoito
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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French:
électroconvulsivothérapie
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Greek:
ηλεκτροσπασμοθεραπεία
(ilektrospasmotherapeía)
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Hungarian:
elektrosokk-terápia
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Italian:
elettroshockterapia
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Polish:
terapia elektrowstrząsowa
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Polish:
elektrowstrząsy
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Portuguese:
terapia eletroconvulsiva
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Portuguese:
terapia de choque
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Romanian:
terapie electroconvulsivă
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Romanian:
terapie-electroșoc
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Russian:
электросудорожная терапи́я
(elektrosudorožnaja terapíja)
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Spanish:
terapia electroconvulsiva
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
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Swedish:
elchock
— biomedical therapy using electrical current
