electroconvulsive therapy

English

Noun

electroconvulsive therapy (usually uncountable, plural electroconvulsive therapies)

(medicine) 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.

Synonyms

ECT, Edison's medicine, electroshock therapy, shock therapy

Translations

biomedical therapy using electrical current

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 電痙攣療法, 电痉挛疗法 (diànjìngluán liáofǎ), 電休克療法, 电休克疗法 (diànxiūkè liáofǎ), 電抽搐治療, 电抽搐治疗 (diànchōuchù zhìliáo)
Czech: elektrokonvulzivní terapie f
Finnish: sähköshokkihoito
French: électroconvulsivothérapie (fr)
Greek: ηλεκτροσπασμοθεραπεία f (ilektrospasmotherapeía)
Hungarian: elektrosokk-terápia

Italian: elettroshockterapia f
Portuguese: terapia eletroconvulsiva f, terapia de choque f
Romanian: terapie electroconvulsivă, terapie-electroșoc
Russian: электросудорожная терапи́я f (elektrosudorožnaja terapíja)
Spanish: terapia electroconvulsiva f
Swedish: elchock (sv) c
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

electroconvulsive therapy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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