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Anaphylactic shock
a severe and rapid and sometimes fatal hypersensitivity reaction to a substance (especially a vaccine or penicillin or shellfish or insect venom) to which the organism has become sensitized by previous exposure
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hypersensitivity reaction to the ingestion or injection of a substance (a protein or drug) resulting from prior contact with a substan…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent ab…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent ab…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has col…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent ab…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has col…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has col…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Emergency medicine.the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel
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the energy that an atomic system must acquire before a process (such as an emission or reaction) can occur; "catalysts are said to red…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, rapid, fatal, hypersensitivity, reaction.enzyme produced by certain bacteria that inactivates penicillin and results in resistance to that antibiotic
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, rapid, fatal, hypersensitivity, reaction.acceleration of a chemical reaction induced by the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction; "of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, rapid, fatal, hypersensitivity, reaction.acceleration of a chemical reaction induced by the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction; "of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, rapid, fatal, hypersensitivity, reaction.A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, rapid, fatal, hypersensitivity, reaction.capacity or power to produce a desired effect; "concern about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, rapid, fatal, hypersensitivity, reaction.the energy that an atomic system must acquire before a process (such as an emission or reaction) can occur; "catalysts are said to red…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, rapid, fatal, hypersensitivity, reaction.To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, rapid, fatal, hypersensitivity, reaction.(chemistry) the ratio of concentrations when equilibrium is reached in a reversible reaction (when the rate of the forward reaction eq…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, rapid, fatal, hypersensitivity, reaction.(chemistry) the principle that (at chemical equilibrium) in a reversible reaction the ratio of the rate of the forward reaction to the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, rapid, fatal, hypersensitivity, reaction.a red rash caused by hypersensitivity to a drug or disease or other allergen
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, rapid, fatal, hypersensitivity, reaction.An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, rapid, fatal, hypersensitivity, reaction.Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, rapid, fatal, hypersensitivity, reaction.That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
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