electrotherapy

1. 1.

   the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)

   Synonymsgalvanismelectric healingelectrical healing

   Broadertherapy

   Narrowerelectroconvulsive therapy

Other forms of electrotherapy

plural

electrotherapies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about electrotherapy

What does electrotherapy mean?

electrotherapy means "the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)".

How many syllables are in electrotherapy?

electrotherapy has 6 syllables: e-lec-tro-the-ra-py. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for electrotherapy?

Close synonyms include galvanism, electric healing, electrical healing. 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 electrotherapy a common word?

electrotherapy 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.