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coun·ter·shock

n :  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 within seconds of an arrhythmic episode -John Maurice>  .
 
 

 
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