Shock therapy

noun

Word Frequency: 0.4

Definitions

1.nounA 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."

2.nounThe use of a single, very large dose of a medicine

3.nounGovernment policy of sudden release of price controls and immediate trade liberalization within a country.

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