Shock
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Shock may refer to:
Main uses
Social sciences
- Culture shock, in social psychology
- Shock value, in popular psychology
Medicine
In medicine, shock may refer to any of the following:
- Shock (circulatory), circulatory medical emergency
- Psychological shock, that is, acute stress reaction, a psychological state in response to terrifying events
- Cold shock response, physiological response of organisms to sudden cold, especially cold water
- Insulin shock, physiologic impairment from too much insulin
- Diabetic hypoglycemia, when people with diabetes accidentally take too much insulin or not enough food
- Insulin shock therapy, a primitive and obsolete form of psychiatric therapy that purposely induced such shock
- Shell shock, the reaction of soldiers in World War I to the trauma of battle
- Septic shock, a result of severe infection and sepsis
- Spinal shock, loss of sensation and movement functions following a spinal cord injury
- Shock, a medical journal
- Anaphylactic shock
- Electric shock, a sudden flow of electric current that can cause electrical injury or be therapeutic
- Lightning strike injury
- Defibrillation, that is, defibrillatory shock or countershock, an electric shock to restore heart rhythm
- Electroconvulsive therapy, that is, shock therapy or electroshock therapy, a psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in anesthetized patients for therapeutic effect
- Osmotic shock, cell physiology dysfunction brought on by osmotic water shifts due to sudden solute concentration changes
- Hydrostatic shock, a complex and poorly understood hydraulic effect from ballistic impact that quickly results in circulatory shock and psychological shock
Physical sciences
- Bow shock, in planetary science and astronomy
- Electric shock
- Thermal shock
- Shock (mechanics), a sudden acceleration or deceleration
- Shock absorber
- Shock mount
- Shock wave, one example being a sonic boom
- Shocks and discontinuities (magnetohydrodynamics)
Mathematics and statistics
- A stochastic term in a dynamic equation
Agriculture
- Stook or shock of grain, a number of sheaves of grain stacked upright in a field for drying
Arts and entertainment
- Shock art, contemporary art that creates a shocking experience
- Shock jock, a radio broadcaster who entertains in a way that may be offensive
- Shock site, a website that is intended to be offensive or shocking to most viewers
Books
- Future Shock, 1970 book written by the sociologist and futurist Alvin Toffler
- System Shock (Doctor Who), a 1995 Doctor Who novel
- Shock (novel), a 2001 novel by Robin Cook
- The Shock Doctrine, a 2007 book by Naomi Klein
Film and television
- Shock (1946 film), starring Vincent Price
- Shock (1977 film), a 1977 Italian film
- Shock (2004 film), a 2004 Tamil film starring Prashanth Thyagarajan
- Shock (2006 film), a 2006 Telugu film
- The Shock (1923 film), a 1923 silent film
- Static Shock, a 2000 American animated television series
- Shock Theater, a 1950s and '60s American television movie series
Games
- Shock: Social Science Fiction, an independent role-playing game by Joshua A.C. Newman
- System Shock, a computer/video game
Music
- Shock rock, a genera of rock music with elements of theatrical shock
- Shock (album), a 1985 album by The Motels
- Shock (musical), a Japanese stage musical series
- "Shock" (Beast song), a 2010 song by South Korean boy band Beast
- "Shock!", a 2010 song by the Japanese band Cute
- "Shock: Unmei", a 2009 song by Meisa Kuroki
- "Shock" (Fear Factory song), a 1998 song by Fear Factory
- "Shock", a 1987 song by The Psychedelic Furs from Midnight to Midnight
- Shock (troupe), an English music/mime/dance/pop group
- Shock Records, an Australian record label
People
- Maurice Shock (born 1936), British educator
- Ron Shock (1942–2012), American comedian and storyteller
- Stefie Shock (born 1969), Canadian musician
- Shock or Harry Del Rios (born 1973), American professional wrestler
- Shock G or Gregory E. Jacobs (born 1963), American musician and rapper
- Shock Gibson, a fictional comic book superhero
- Shock White (18th century), English cricketer
Places
- Shock, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States
Recreation
- Tulsa Shock, a WNBA professional women's basketball team
- Detroit Shock, its previous incarnation before moving to Tulsa
- Spokane Shock, an arena football team based in Spokane, Washington
- Shock chlorination, a process used in water to reduce bacterial and algal residue
- Wichita State Shockers, the nickname of Wichita State University
Military
- Shock tactics, a close quarter battle tactic, usually done by specially trained shock troops
- Shock troops, troops trained for shock tactics, usually heavy cavalry or infantry
- Shock and awe, a plan to overwhelm an adversary's perception and destroy its will to fight
Other uses
- Shock (economics), an unexpected or unpredictable event that affects an economy
- Shock, a historic commercial English term for a group of 60
See also
- Schacht, a surname
- Schock (disambiguation)
- Shocked, a 1999 song
- Shocker (disambiguation)
- Shock therapy (disambiguation)
- Shocking (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Shock"
- All pages with titles containing Shock
- Shack
- Shake (disambiguation)
- Surprise (emotion)
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