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Toxic shock syndrome

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An acute infection caused by Staphylococcus bacteria, characterized by sudden high fever, muscle aches, joint pain, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, and fainting. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    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 wordnet

Etymology

From toxic + shock + syndrome. First appears in medical literature c. 1978.

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