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Electroconvulsive therapy

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Noun
  1. 1
    A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient. uncountable, usually

    "The therapeutic effects of low and high energy electroconvulsive therapies are quite different."

  2. 2
    the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma wordnet

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