electroconvulsive therapy

English

Noun

electroconvulsive therapy (usually uncountable, plural electroconvulsive therapies)

1. (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

Coordinate terms

• insulin shock therapy (an outdated therapy)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), 電驚厥療法／电惊厥疗法 (diànjīngjué liáofǎ)

• Czech: elektrokonvulzivní terapie f
• Dutch: elektroconvulsietherapie f, elektroshocktherapie (nl) f, elektroshock (nl) m
• Finnish: sähköshokkihoito
• French: électroconvulsivothérapie (fr)
• Greek: ηλεκτροσπασμοθεραπεία f (ilektrospasmotherapeía)
• Hungarian: elektrosokk-terápia (hu)
• 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