Synonyms for electroconvulsive therapy
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
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.
Example sentences
- electroshock Lukas was prepared for electroshock therapy.
By length
- 12 letters
- electroshock4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (electroshock4 = 4 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- électrochoc