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ECT

ECT is the initialism of electroconvulsive therapy.

ECT is the initialism of endless/eternal/everlasting conscious torment.

Meaning of electroconvulsive therapy

Noun

electroconvulsive therapy (usually uncountable, plural electroconvulsive therapies)

  1. (usually) 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.

Forms of ECT

pluralECTs

Questions about ECT

What is ECT the initialism of?
ECT is the initialism of electroconvulsive therapy.

Words near ECT in the dictionary

  1. ecstaticized
  2. ecstaticizes
  3. ecstaticizing
  4. ecstatick
  5. ecstatics
  6. ECT
  7. ect.
  8. ectad
  9. ectaheteromorph
  10. ectaheteromorphs
  11. ectal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ECT (page history and authors); electroconvulsive therapy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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