Electroshock

Quick meaning: Electroshock is a noun meaning (An) electric shock.

Meaning

(An) electric shock.

More Meanings

1. (medicine) Electroconvulsive therapy.
2. (medicine) To administer electroconvulsive therapy.

Example Sentences

As he awaited the third series of electroshocks in late October 1943, Artaud recalled the accident to Ferdière: 'The electroshock therapy has caused me to suffer terribly, and I beg you to spare me another suffering.'

Although California has the toughest laws in the country regulating electroshock and requiring patient consent, due to the pressures from the medical lobby these have never been enforced. The procedure is extremely lucrative for the doctors who use it.

Supramaximal Electroshock Test (Mouse and Rat) After drug administration, each animal received an electroshock [...] through corneal electrodes to initiate a hindlimb tonic extension convulsion; anticonvulsant activity occurred when the above convulsion was blocked.

Test mice were injected i.vt. with 95 mM taurine in a volume of 2 μ1,3 min prior to an electroshock (50 mA for 0.2 sec). The dose of taurine was chosen from our previous data on the suppressive action of the sulfur amino acid [...]. Control animals were injected with [...] phosphate buffered saline solution in an identical volume and 3 min later received the electroshock. All solutions injected i.vt.

Word Forms

• electroshocks
• electroshocking
• electroshocked

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