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ELECTROTHERAPY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electrotherapy mean? 

ELECTROTHERAPY (noun)
  The noun ELECTROTHERAPY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ELECTROTHERAPY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ELECTROTHERAPY (noun)


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 ("electrotherapy" 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 "electrotherapy"):

ECT; electroconvulsive therapy; electroshock; electroshock therapy (the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma)

Derivation:

electrotherapist (someone who specializes in the treatment of disease by electricity)


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