OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 22501

electroconvulsive therapy

Meanings (ES + gloss)
terapia electroconvulsiva
A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
The therapeutic effects of low and high energy electroconvulsive therapies are quite different.
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