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electroconvulsive therapies

electroconvulsive therapies is the plural of electroconvulsive therapy.

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.

Questions about electroconvulsive therapies

What is electroconvulsive therapies the plural of?
Electroconvulsive therapies is the plural of electroconvulsive therapy.

Words near electroconvulsive therapies in the dictionary

  1. electroconvective
  2. electroconvulsant
  3. electroconvulsion
  4. electroconvulsions
  5. electroconvulsive
  6. electroconvulsive therapies
  7. electroconvulsive therapy
  8. electroconvulsively
  9. electrocopied
  10. electrocopies
  11. electrocopolymerization

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