English Dictionary

electroconvulsive therapy

名詞

不可算名詞 通常

(medicine) A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.

日本語の意味

重度のうつ病患者に対して、全身麻酔下で短時間の電気刺激を脳に送る生体医療療法

After consulting several specialists, she agreed to undergo electroconvulsive therapy as a last resort for her severe depression.

複数の専門医に相談した結果、彼女は重度のうつ病に対する最後の手段として電気けいれん療法を受けることに同意した。

意味（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.

electroconvulsive therapies （ plural ）