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

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electroshock therapynounSynonym of electroconvulsive therapy.
electroconvulsive therapynoun(medicine) A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
electroshocknoun(medicine) Electroconvulsive therapy.
tecnounInitialism of The Episcopal Church.
cptnoun(medicine) Initialism of current procedure terminology.
etcnounAlternative form of etc..
eranounA time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
tcsnoun(India) Initialism of Tata Consultancy Services.
teunounInitialism of twenty-foot equivalent unit. [(logistics) A unit of cargo capacity, based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container.]
subjnounAbbreviation of subject. [(grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.]
casnoun(informal) Abbreviation of casual. [Happening by chance.]
eernoun(poetic) Unpunctuated contraction of ever.
ctsnoun(pathology) Initialism of carpal tunnel syndrome.
iatnoun(psychology) Abbreviation of Implicit Association Test. [(psychology) a measure within social psychology designed to detect the strength of a person's automatic association between mental representations of objects (concepts) in memory]
ctanoun(marketing) Initialism of call to action. [An appeal for action.]
ecjnounInitialism of European Court of Justice.
tcenoun(UK, in street addresses) terrace
ektnoun
et al.used as an abbreviation of `et alibi' when referring to other occurrences in a text
and so forthcontinuing in the same way

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