NOUN
- 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 highly absorbent tampons
How To Use toxic shock In A Sentence
- Since 1990, Bradley said two children besides Jessica have been admitted to the hospital with severe streptococcal toxic shock.
- In California a three-person outbreak of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome occurred in patients in a hospital.
- I remember a woman losing the tips of her fingers because of the endotoxic shock causing the blood vessels to shrink down. Archive 2006-01-01
- The bacteria that causes toxic shock syndrome can be carried on unwashed hands and prompt an infection anywhere on the body.
- What Are the Symptoms of Toxic Shock Syndrome?
- She died from the rare bacterial infection toxic shock syndrome. The Sun
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- Research trauma state of mononuclear cell gene expression: a serious trauma often leads to fatal sepsis and toxic shock.
- Since 1990, Bradley said two children besides Jessica have been admitted to the hospital with severe streptococcal toxic shock.
- The image that I retain was that of a 31-year-old Mexican-American woman who died of endotoxic shock with her husband and four or five children around. Archive 2006-01-01
