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ELECTRIC HEALING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does electric healing mean?
• ELECTRIC HEALING (noun)
The noun ELECTRIC HEALING has 1 sense:
1. the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
Familiarity information: ELECTRIC HEALING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
electric healing; electrical healing; electrotherapy; galvanism
Hypernyms ("electric healing" is a kind of...):
therapy ((medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electric healing"):
ECT; electroconvulsive therapy; electroshock; electroshock therapy (the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma)
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