electroshock therapy

1. 1.

   the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma

   Synonymselectroconvulsive therapyelectroshockECT

   Broadershock therapyelectrotherapy

Questions about electroshock therapy

What does electroshock therapy mean?

electroshock therapy means "the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma".

What is another word for electroshock therapy?

Close synonyms include electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock, ECT. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electroshock therapy a common word?

electroshock therapy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.