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electroconvulsive therapy

/ih-lek-troh-kuhn-vuhl-siv, ih-lek-/US // ɪˈlɛk troʊ kənˈvʌl sɪv, ɪˌlɛk- //

电休克疗法,电休克治疗,电痉挛疗法,电惊厥治疗

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  1. 1

    Psychiatry.

    • : a treatment for serious mental illnesses, as severe depressive disorders, involving the application to the head of electric current in order to induce a seizure: usually administered after sedatives and muscle relaxants. Abbreviation: ECT

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Examples

  • Nothing she had tried to treat it, including electroconvulsive therapy, had helped.

  • So, we said, “All right, we’re gonna give it not once, but we’re gonna give it on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule, just like we’d give electroconvulsive therapy for severe depression, for a couple of weeks and see how they do.”

  • Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.

  • I return home after several days in the hospital and start thrice weekly physical therapy.

  • The campaign included a push for the World Health Organization to condemn gay-conversion therapy.

  • Collaborating with him on a film was the best kind of therapy I could have asked for.

  • And for those seeking a quick fix: Studies show that light therapy can spur a mood lift in just several days.

  • In serum therapy antitoxins are artificially excited into being in the blood of beasts.

  • Thus far we have considered only the scientific aspects of amorphous phosphorus therapy.

  • The first who wrote upon the therapy of cinchona was Barba, a Spanish physician, whose work was printed in Seville in 1642.

  • In them we have every phase of modern therapy that has the strong element of suggestion in it.

  • In every department of therapy this has always been done by enthusiasts.