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Definition: Toxic Shock |
Toxic ShockNoun1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus; characterized by fever and diarrhea and nausea and diffuse erythema and shock; occurs especially in menstruating women using high-absorbency tampons. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Toxic ShockSynonym: toxic shock syndrome (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Toxic Shock |
| Specialty definitions using "toxic shock": Streptococcus pyogenes. (references) |
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 | Associated with outbreak of toxic shock syndrome. Credit: CDC. |  | Toxic Shock Syndrome is so rare you might forget it can happen... Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Health | Schuchat A, Broome CV. Toxic Shock Syndrome and Tampons. (references) | |
Gavanta S. Reingold AL, Hightower AW et al., Active surveillance for toxic shock syndrome in the United States. (references) | ||
Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS), causes blood pressure to drop rapidly and organs (e.g., kidney, liver, lungs) to fail. STSS is not the same as the "toxic shock syndrome" frequently associated with tampon usage. (references) | ||
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Expression using "toxic shock": toxic shock syndrome. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
toxic shock syndrome | 400 |
toxic shock | 76 |
toxic shock syndrome symptom | 26 |
toxic shock symptom | 6 |
streptococcal toxic shock syndrome | 4 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-h-i-k-o-o-s-t-x" | |
-3 letters: cockish, schtick. | |
-4 letters: chicks, chicos, chocks, chooks, cohost, hoicks, kitsch, schtik, scotch, shtick, thicks, toxics. | |
-5 letters: chick, chico, chics, chits, chock, chook, cisco, cocos, cohos, cooch, cooks, coots, hicks, hocks, hoick, hoist, hooks, hoots, kiths, kotos, scoot, shock, shook, shoot, shtik, sicko, sixth, socko, sooth, stich, stick, stock, stoic, stook, thick, ticks, toxic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 78 69 63 53 68 6F 63 6B |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01111000 01101001 01100011 00100000 01010011 01101000 01101111 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o x i c   S h o c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0078 0069 0063 0053 0068 006F 0063 006B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548190756925374816977 |
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