SHOCK

Shock

Circulatory shock, commonly known simply as shock, is a life-threatening medical condition that occurs due to inadequate substrate for aerobic cellular respiration. In the early stages this is generally an inadequate tissue level of oxygen.

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shock

Noun

  1. Sudden, heavy impact.
    The train hit the buffers with a great shock.
  1. Something so surprising that it is stunning.
  2. Electric shock, a sudden burst of electric energy, hitting an animate animal such as a human.
  3. Circulatory shock, a life-threatening medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
  4. A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance
  1. A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.
  2. A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
  3. A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass)
    a head covered with a shock of sandy hair
  4. A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.

Verb

  1. To cause to be emotionally shocked.
    The disaster shocked the world.
  2. To give an electric shock.
  3. To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
    to shock rye


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