insulin shock therapy

English

Noun

insulin shock therapy (usually uncountable, plural insulin shock therapies)

1. (medicine, psychiatry, dated) An outdated type of shock therapy effected by means of injecting an overdose of insulin.

Coordinate terms

• electroconvulsive therapy
• electroshock therapy

Translations

therapy

• Romanian: terapie de șoc cu insulină f

Further reading

• insulin shock therapy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia