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Noun toxic shock has 1 sense
- toxic shock, toxic shock syndrome, TSS - 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 high-absorbency tampons
--1 is a kind of syndrome
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