ect
IPA: ˈɛkt
Root Word: ECT
noun
- (medicine) Initialism of electroconvulsive therapy. [(medicine) A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.]
- (theology, uncountable) Initialism of endless/eternal/everlasting conscious torment (“traditional view of the nature of Hell”).
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Examples of "ect" in Sentences
- ECT is not a first line treatment.
- As for the ECT claim, utter nonsense.
- There are help pages on that site ect.
- But this does not a ect the work at all.
- Suspect that this is an anti ECT coatrack.
- Are mine and are not to be sold, bought, ect...
- And the same can be said of ECT and psychosurgery.
- ECT and this silliness are both somatic treatments.
- Changed the title from an origin of ECT to a history of ECT.
- There are only a handful of citations, choppy prose throughout, ect ect ect.
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