electrotherapy

English

Etymology

From electro- +‎ therapy.

Noun

electrotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural electrotherapies)

1. The use of electrical energy as a medical treatment.

Coordinate terms

• electroanesthesia

Derived terms

• electrotherapist
• electrotherapeutic

Translations

use of electrical energy as a medical treatment

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電療法 / 电疗法 (zh) (diànliáofǎ)

• Czech: elektroléčba f, elektroterapie f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: elektrotherapie (nl) f
• Estonian: elektroteraapia
• Finnish: elektroterapia
• French: électrothérapie (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Elektrotherapie f
• Greek: ηλεκτροθεραπεία (el) f (ilektrotherapeía)
• Hungarian: elektroterápia (hu)
• Ido: elektroterapio (io)
• Italian: elettroterapia (it) f, galvanoterapia f
• Japanese: 電気療法 (でんき りょうほう, denki ryōhō)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: elektroterapia (pl) f
• Portuguese: eletroterapia f
• Romanian: electroterapie (ro) f
• Russian: электротерапи́я (ru) f (elektroterapíja)
• Spanish: electroterapia f

Further reading

• Electroconvulsive therapy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia