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
    • Oblique shock
• 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)