Medical Dictionary
countershock
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coun·ter·shock
\-ˌshäk\
Medical Definition of countershock
: a therapeutic shock of electricity applied to a heart for the purpose of altering a disturbed rhythm (as in chronic atrial fibrillation) delivering a life-saving countershock within seconds of an arrhythmic episode—John Maurice
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