Healthcare •
Acute stress reaction, also known as psychological or mental shock •
Shell shock, soldiers' reaction to battle trauma •
Circulatory shock, a medical emergency •
Cardiogenic shock, resulting from dysfunction of the heart •
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, a result of severe allergic reaction •
Neurogenic shock, due to a high spinal cord injury disrupting the sympathetic nervous system •
Hypovolemic shock, resulting from an insufficient blood volume •
Hemorrhagic shock, from a large volume lost to bleeding •
Obstructive shock, resulting from mechanical obstruction of blood flow •
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
Physical sciences •
Shock (mechanics), a sudden acceleration or deceleration •
Shock absorber •
Shock mount •
Shock wave •
Oblique shock •
Shock (fluid dynamics), an abrupt discontinuity in the flow field •
Bow shock, in planetary science and astronomy •
Electric shock •
Shock chlorination of water to reduce bacteria and algae •
Shocks and discontinuities (magnetohydrodynamics) •
Thermal shock Social sciences •
Shock (economics), an unpredicted event that affects an economy •
Demand shock •
Supply shock •
Culture shock, in social psychology •
Shock value, in popular psychology
Collective noun • Shock, a historic commercial term for a group of 60, see English numerals#Special names •
Stook, or shock of grain, stacked sheaves ==Places==