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
- The symptoms of toxic shock syndrome include high fever, a rash, vomiting and low blood pressure.
- Research trauma state of mononuclear cell gene expression: a serious trauma often leads to fatal sepsis and toxic shock.
- The names of some are notoriously well-known: Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the organisms responsible for toxic shock syndrome and legionnaire's disease.
- The symptoms of toxic shock syndrome include high fever, a rash, vomiting and low blood pressure.
- The synthetic materials used in tampons, such as rayon (bleached by chlorine), contain carcinogenic substances like dioxin, and have been known to cause toxic shock syndrome.
- We report a fatal case of toxic shock syndrome in a 14 year old girl associated with minor day case dermatological surgery.
- High absorbency tampons left in the vagina for a long time have been associated with a dangerous illness called toxic shock syndrome.
- Figure 1: Itgam-deficient mice have more production of proinflammatory cytokines when challenged with TLR ligands and are more susceptible to endotoxic shock. Naturejobs - All Jobs
- Stein B, Pfenninger E, Grunert A, Schmitz JE, Hudde M. Influence of continuous haemofiltration on haemodynamics and central blood volume in experimental endotoxic shock. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- Alarmingly, since the 1980s S. pyogenes has been identified to be globally responsible for a class of emerging, life threatening, invasive infections including the "flesh-eating" disease, necrotizing fasciitis, septicemia, and the excretion of the pyrogenic exotoxin-associated toxic shock syndrome PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles