Shock may refer to:

Common uses

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

  • Shock, West Virginia, an unincorporated US community

People

People with the given name or nickname

  • Shock or Harry Del Rios (born 1973), American professional wrestler
  • Shock G or Gregory E. Jacobs (1963–2021), American musician and rapper

People with the surname

  • Shock (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Categories and genres

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

Films

  • The Shock (film), a 1923 silent film
  • Shock (1934 film), starring Ralph Forbes
  • 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

Music

Groups and labels

  • Shock (troupe), an English music/mime/dance group
  • Shock Records, an Australian record label

Artists

  • Culture Shock (musician), British producer and DJ
  • Minotaur Shock, British electronica musician
  • ShockOne, Australian producer and DJ
  • Stefie Shock, Canadian singer-songwriter

Albums

  • Shock (The Motels album), 1985
  • Shock (Tesla album), 2019

Songs

  • "Shock" (Beast song), a 2010 song by South Korean boy band Beast
  • "Shock" (Fear Factory song), a 1998 song by Fear Factory
  • "Shock" (The Motels song), 1985
  • "Shock", a 1987 song by The Psychedelic Furs from Midnight to Midnight
  • "Shock!", a 2022 song by Sakanaction from Adapt
  • "Shock!", a 2010 song by the Japanese band Cute
  • "Shock (Unmei)", a 2009 song by Meisa Kuroki

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • Elektra Shock, New Zealand drag performer
  • Shock: Social Science Fiction, role-playing game
  • Shock Theater, a 1950s and 1960s American television film series
  • Shock (novel), a 2001 novel by Robin Cook
  • Shock (character), a Marvel Comics supervillain
  • Shock (journal), a medical journal
  • Shock (musical), a Japanese stage musical series
  • The Shock (TV program), an Arabic-language hidden-camera show
  • Shock Gibson, a comic book superhero
  • "Shock" (The Gentle Touch), a television episode

Military

  • Shock and awe, display of force to destroy an opponent's will to fight
  • Shock tactics, a close quarter battle tactic
  • Shock troops, who apply shock tactics

Sports and teams

  • San Francisco Shock, a professional Overwatch League team
  • Shock Linwood, American college running back
  • Spokane Shock, an arena football team based in Spokane, Washington, US
  • Tulsa Shock, a WNBA professional women's basketball team
  • Detroit Shock, previous name of Tulsa Shock

See also

  • Schock (disambiguation)
  • Shock therapy (disambiguation)
  • Shocked (disambiguation)
  • Shocker (disambiguation)
  • Shocking (disambiguation)