shaken baby syndrome

English

Noun

shaken baby syndrome (countable and uncountable, plural shaken baby syndromes) (abbreviated as SBS)

  1. A form of physical child abuse that occurs when a child is violently shaken, creating a whiplash-type motion that causes acceleration-deceleration injuries, often without external signs of trauma.

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