Medical Definition of electroconvulsive therapy. : the treatment of mental illness and especially depression by the application of electric current to the head of a usually anesthetized patient that induces unconsciousness and convulsive seizures in the brainâabbreviation ECT; called also electric shock, electric shock therapy, electroshock therapy.
The movie's script was changed to include the elaborate ceremony of the Inner Circle on Groundhog Day. The original groundhog cast for the movie was considered to be too small. Some of the store names in Punxsutawney were used in the movie, such as The Smart Shop and Stewart's Drug Store. Punxsutawney's police cars were also recreated for the movie.
Groundhog, woodchuck, gopher, or whistlepig (more on that later) are all the same animal, varying only slightly in color and size. They are members of the squirrel family, and the marmot tribe (Marmota monax). The word woodchuck is a corruption of the Algonquian wejack..