Talk:shock
Add topicLatest comment: 12 years ago by Penglish
Hospital press releases often say that [an] individual[s] is/are "in a state of shock".
Ironically this is not using the word in its medical sense, in which it refers to various forms of circulatory failure; but rather, they are using it in a lay but curiously medicalised sense to mean "upset" or "distress".