Webster's New World Medical Dictionary

shock, insulin
See 
insulin shock.
shock, psychological
See 
post-traumatic
stress disorder.
shock, septic
Shock caused by bloodstream
infection. Symptoms include dizziness and loss of
consciousness. Treatment includes intravenous flu-
ids and antibiotics. See also 
sepsis.
shock, shell
See 
post-traumatic stress disorder.
shock, spinal
Shock caused by injury to the
spinal cord. Symptoms include numbness, tingling,
loss of feeling sensation, dizziness, and loss of con-
sciousness.
shock, vasogenic
Shock caused by widening
of the blood vessels, usually from medication.
Symptoms include dizziness and loss of conscious-
ness. Treatment includes lying supine, discontinuing
the offending medication (if present), and fluid
administration.
shock treatment
See 
electroconvulsive therapy.
short arm of a chromosome
See 
p arm of a
chromosome.
short-term memory
See 
memory, short-term.
shot, allergy
See 
allergy desensitization.
shot, flu
See 
influenza vaccine.
shoulder
A structure that is made up of two main
bones: the scapula (shoulder blade) and the
humerus (the long bone of the upper arm). The end
of the scapula, called the glenoid, is a socket into
which the head of the humerus fits, forming a flexi-
ble ball-and-socket joint. The scapula is an unusu-
ally shaped bone. It extends up and around the
shoulder joint at the rear to create a roof called the
acromion, and it extends around the shoulder joint
at the front to constitute the coracoid process. See
also 
shoulder joint.