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  • 1.1 Healthcare
  • 1.2 Physical sciences
  • 1.3 Social sciences
  • 1.4 Collective noun
• 2 Places
• 3 People Toggle People subsection
  • 3.1 People with the given name or nickname
  • 3.2 People with the surname
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    • 4.3.3 Albums
    • 4.3.4 Songs
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Shock may refer to:

Common uses

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Healthcare

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• Acute stress reaction, also known as psychological or mental shock
  • Shell shock, soldiers' reaction to battle trauma
• Circulatory shock, a medical emergency
  • Cardiogenic shock, resulting from dysfunction of the heart
  • Distributive shock, resulting from an abnormal distribution of blood flow
    • Septic shock, a result of severe infection
      • Toxic shock syndrome, a specific type of severe infection
    • Anaphylactic shock, a result of severe allergic reaction
    • Neurogenic shock, due to a high spinal cord injury disrupting the sympathetic nervous system
  • Hypovolemic shock, resulting from an insufficient blood volume
    • Hemorrhagic shock, from a large volume lost to bleeding
  • Obstructive shock, resulting from mechanical obstruction of blood flow
• Cold shock response of organisms to sudden cold, especially cold water
• Electric shock
  • Defibrillation, electric shock to restore heart rhythm
  • Electroconvulsive therapy or shock treatment, psychiatric treatment
• Hydrostatic shock, from ballistic impact
• Insulin shock or diabetic hypoglycemia, from too much insulin
  • Insulin shock therapy, purposely induced insulin shock, obsolete therapy
• Osmotic shock, caused by solute concentration around a cell

Physical sciences

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• Shock (mechanics), a sudden acceleration or deceleration
  • Shock absorber
  • Shock mount
  • Shock wave
    • Oblique shock
• Shock (fluid dynamics), an abrupt discontinuity in the flow field
• Bow shock, in planetary science and astronomy
• Electric shock
• Shock chlorination of water to reduce bacteria and algae
• Shocks and discontinuities (magnetohydrodynamics)
• Thermal shock

Social sciences

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• Shock (economics), an unpredicted event that affects an economy
  • Demand shock
  • Supply shock
• Culture shock, in social psychology
• Shock value, in popular psychology

Collective noun

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• Shock, a historic commercial term for a group of 60, see English numerals#Special names
• Stook, or shock of grain, stacked sheaves

Places

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• Shock, West Virginia, an unincorporated US community

People

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People with the given name or nickname

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• Shock or Harry Del Rios (born 1973), American professional wrestler
• Shock G or Gregory E. Jacobs (1963–2021), American musician and rapper

People with the surname

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• Everett Shock, American geochemist
• Maurice Shock (1926–2018), British educator
• Molly Shock, American film editor
• Ron Shock (1942–2012), American comedian and storyteller
• Stefie Shock (born 1969), Canadian musician
• Susy Shock (born 1968), Argentine actress, writer, and singer
• Viki Shock (born 1975), Czech writer and artist

Arts, entertainment, and media

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Categories and genres

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• Shock art
• Shock jock, deliberately offensive broadcaster
• Shock rock, a genre of rock music
• Shock site, deliberately offensive website

Films

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• The Shock (film), a 1923 silent film
• Shock (1934 film), starring Ralph Forbes
• Shock (1946 film), starring Vincent Price
• Shock (1977 film), an Italian film
• Shock (2004 film), a Tamil film starring Prashanth Thyagarajan
• Shock (2006 film), a Telugu film

Music

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Groups and labels

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• Shock (troupe), an English music/mime/dance group
• Shock Records, an Australian record label

Artists

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• Culture Shock (musician), British producer and DJ
• Minotaur Shock, British electronica musician
• ShockOne, Australian producer and DJ
• Stefie Shock, Canadian singer-songwriter

Albums

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• Shock (The Motels album), 1985
• Shock (Tesla album), 2019

Songs

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• "Shock" (Beast song), a 2010 song by South Korean boy band Beast
• "Shock" (Fear Factory song), a 1998 song by Fear Factory
• "Shock" (The Motels song), 1985
• "Shock", a 1987 song by The Psychedelic Furs from Midnight to Midnight
• "Shock!", a 2022 song by Sakanaction from Adapt
• "Shock!", a 2010 song by the Japanese band Cute
• "Shock (Unmei)", a 2009 song by Meisa Kuroki

Other arts, entertainment, and media

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• Elektra Shock, New Zealand drag performer
• Shock: Social Science Fiction, role-playing game
• Shock Theater, a 1950s and 1960s American television film series
• Shock (novel), a 2001 novel by Robin Cook
• Shock (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Shock (journal), a medical journal
• Shock (musical), a Japanese stage musical series
• The Shock (TV program), an Arabic-language hidden-camera show
• Shock Gibson, a fictional comic book superhero
• "Shock" (The Gentle Touch), a television episode

Military

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• Shock and awe, display of force to destroy an opponent's will to fight
• Shock tactics, a close quarter battle tactic
• Shock troops, who apply shock tactics

Sports and teams

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• San Francisco Shock, a professional Overwatch League team
• Shock Linwood, American college running back
• Spokane Shock, an arena football team based in Spokane, Washington, US
• Tulsa Shock, a WNBA professional women's basketball team
  • Detroit Shock, previous name of Tulsa Shock

See also

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• Schock (disambiguation)
• Shock therapy (disambiguation)
• Shocked (disambiguation)
• Shocker (disambiguation)
• Shocking (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Shock
• All pages with titles containing Shock

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