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Word: countershock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...heart into fibrillation with low-voltage current. They have left a heart fibrillating for as long as 2¼ hours, and for an average of an hour in 45 cases. At operation's end, they switch the heart back to normal activity with a delicately timed electrical countershock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stop-&-Go Shocks | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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