electroconvulsive

Adjective

Meaning

electroconvulsive (not comparable)

(medicine) Causing seizures or convulsions by means of strong electrical shocks.
Electroconvulsive therapy is virtually a last-resort technique.

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Phrases with the word

electroconvulsive treatment

Examples

Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, is the best therapy for unipolar depression that exists. ...they have found that the smile will return to the face of the patient on the very same day that cortisol dynamics return to normal. Richard Bergland

Following electroconvulsive therapy for depression, Plath made her first medically documented suicide attempt in late August 1953 by crawling under her house and taking her mother's sleeping pills. Source: Internet

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective treatment for catatonia. Source: Internet

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is administered worldwide typically for severe mental disorders. Source: Internet

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT or electric-shock therapy) has been used as treatment of the elderly, and register-studies suggest it is effective although less so among the elderly than among the rest of the adult population. Source: Internet

Other Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is sometimes used in severe cases when other interventions for severe intractable depression have failed. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

electroconvective electroconvulsant electroconvulsion electroconvulsive therapy electroconvulsive treatment electroconvulsively