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单词 electroshock
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electroshockn.

Brit. /ᵻˈlɛktrəʊʃɒk/, U.S. /əˈlɛktroʊʃɑk/, /iˈlɛktroʊʃɑk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; apparently modelled on an Italian lexical item. Etymons: electro- comb. form, shock n.3
Etymology: < electro- comb. form + shock n.3, apparently after Italian electroshock (1938 in the title translated in quot. 1938, where the term is apparently formed after shockoterapia shock therapy).
Chiefly Psychiatry.
An electric shock, esp. one used in the treatment of mental illness; the therapeutic use of electric shocks. Also: the state of having been subjected to an electric shock. Frequently attributive, as electroshock therapy, electroshock treatment, etc.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by electricity > [noun]
electrotherapeutics1849
electrolysis1861
electrotherapy1861
faradization1867
faradism1876
faradaism1886
biotherapy1903
fulguration1907
fulgurating1909
electroshock1938
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric charge, electricity > [noun] > electric shock
shock1746
stroke1767
vibration1842
electroshock1938
1938 Index Medicus 25 462 (title) The first method of shocktherapy ‘Electroshock’.
1942 Science 15 May 512 We are now continuing our experiments and shall carry out similar ones with metrazol shock and electro-shock.
1955 Sci. News Let. 29 Jan. 73/1 Electroshock treatment of the mentally ill can be ‘softened’..by a new drug.
1964 G. P. Lewis in G. Pincus et al. Hormones IV. vii. 395 During electroshock or convulsions the 5HT of the brain increased.
1997 M. Collin & J. Godfrey Altered State v. 143 His eyes rolling and limbs pumping like a broken doll in electro-shock.
2004 Classic Rock Oct. 89/1 It's an album James Taylor might've made after undergoing electro-shock treatment and being forced to sing with a damp sock in his mouth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

electroshockv.

Brit. /ᵻˈlɛktrəʊʃɒk/, U.S. /əˈlɛktroʊˌʃɑk/, /iˈlɛktroʊˌʃɑk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: electro- comb. form, shock v.3
Etymology: < electro- comb. form + shock v.3, after electroshock n. Compare slightly earlier electroshocked adj. and electroshocking n.
transitive. To give an electric shock to. Also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > afflict with disorder of nervous system [verb (transitive)] > shock > electric shock
shock1748
electroshock1962
1962 E. Becker Birth & Death of Meaning vii. 83 With pride we electroshock the depressed back into our world.
1973 Brain Res. 61 443 (caption) Mice were electroshocked transcorneally with the current designated for 0.2 sec.
1977 R. M. Fields Society under Siege iv. 87 Most of them had been..electroshocked when they failed to answer questions.
1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 27 June d6/1 DOW biologists currently are electro-shocking and removing gamefish from the lake.
1998 N.Y. Times 9 July a24/1 Ms. Brown took over the venerable but creaky corpus of The New Yorker in September 1992 and rapidly electro-shocked it into something like an editorial St. Vitus dance.
2005 Dreamwatch Feb. 23/1 A real, soft, human relationship stars developing between them, although he's chained and he's tortured, sedated and electroshocked and so on.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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