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electroshocks

electroshocks is the plural of electroshock.

electroshocks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of electroshock.

Meaning of electroshock

Noun

electroshock (countable and uncountable, plural electroshocks)

  1. (An) electric shock.
    • The injection of the relaxant myocaine (glycerol ester of guaiacol) before an electroshock prevents the dysfunction of carbohydrate metabolism, restricts the splitting of phosphocreatine after cardiazol and picrotoxin, and after electroshock and amidopyrine it facilitates phosphocreatine synthesis...1965, Experimental Epilepsy, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 170
  2. Electroconvulsive therapy.
    • Although California has the toughest laws in the country regulating electroshock and requiring patient consent, due to the pressures from the medical lobby these have never been enforced. The procedure is extremely lucrative for the doctors who use it.1983 April 9, John Kyper, “Nineteen Arrested In Berkeley Shock Protest”, in Gay Community News, page 3

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Questions about electroshocks

What is electroshocks the plural of?
Electroshocks is the plural of electroshock.

Words near electroshocks in the dictionary

  1. electroshock
  2. electroshock therapies
  3. electroshock therapy
  4. electroshocked
  5. electroshocking
  6. electroshocks
  7. electrosilver
  8. electrosilvered
  9. electrosilvering
  10. electrosilvers
  11. electroslag

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