Shock

Collective noun

• Shock, an historic commercial term for a group of 60, see English numerals#Specialized numbers
• Stook or shock of grain, stacked sheaves

Social sciences

• Shock (economics), an unpredicted event that affects an economy
• 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
  • Cardiogenic shock, resulting from dysfunction of the heart
  • Hemorrhagic shock, from a large volume of blood loss
  • Distributive shock, resulting from an abnormal distribution of blood flow
    • Septic shock, a result of severe infection
    • Toxic shock syndrome, a specific type of severe infection
    • Anaphylactic shock
  • Spinal shock, due to a high spinal cord injury disrupting the sympathetic nervous system
• Cold shock response of organisms to sudden cold, especially cold water
• Electric shock
  • Defibrillation, electric shock to restore heart rhythm
  • Electroconvulsive therapy or shock treatment, psychiatric treatment
• Hydrostatic shock, from ballistic impact
• Insulin shock or diabetic hypoglycemia, from too much insulin
  • Insulin shock therapy, purposely induced insulin shock, obsolete therapy
• Osmotic shock, caused by solute concentration around a cell
• Psychological shock or acute stress reaction, to terrifying events
• Shell shock, soldiers' reaction to battle trauma

Physical sciences

• Shock (mechanics), a sudden acceleration or deceleration
  • Shock absorber
  • Shock mount
  • Shock wave
    • Oblique shock
• Bow shock, in planetary science and astronomy
• Electric shock
• Shock chlorination of water to reduce bacteria and algae
• Shocks and discontinuities (magnetohydrodynamics)
• Thermal shock

People with the given name or nickname

• Shock or Harry Del Rios (born 1973), American professional wrestler
• Shock G or Gregory E. Jacobs (born 1963), American musician and rapper
• Shock White, 18th century English cricketer

People with the surname

• Maurice Shock (born 1936), British educator
• Ron Shock (1942–2012), American comedian and storyteller
• Stefie Shock (born 1969), Canadian musician
• Susy Shock (born 1968), Argentine actress, writer, and singer

Categories and genres

• Shock art
• Shock jock, deliberately offensive broadcaster
• Shock rock, a genera of rock music
• Shock site, deliberately offensive website

Films

• Shock (1946 film), starring Vincent Price
• Shock (1977 film), an Italian film
• Shock (2004 film), a Tamil film starring Prashanth Thyagarajan
• Shock (2006 film), a Telugu film
• The Shock (1923 film), a silent film

Literature

• Shock (novel), a 2001 novel by Robin Cook
• Future Shock, 1970 book by Alvin Toffler
• System Shock (Doctor Who), a 1995 Doctor Who novel
• The Shock Doctrine, a 2007 book by Naomi Klein

Games

• Shock: Social Science Fiction, role-playing game
• System Shock, a computer/video game

Music

Television

• Static Shock, a 2000 American animated television series
• Shock Theater, a 1950s and 1960s American television film series

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Shock (journal), a medical journal
• Shock (musical), a Japanese stage musical series
• Shock Gibson, a fictional comic book superhero