toxic shock syndrome

1. 1.

   syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus; characterized by fever and diarrhea and nausea and diffuse erythema and shock; occurs especially in menstruating women using highly absorbent tampons

   Synonymstoxic shockTSS

   Broadersyndrome

Questions about toxic shock syndrome

What does toxic shock syndrome mean?

toxic shock syndrome means "syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus; characterized by fever and diarrhea and nausea and diffuse erythema and shock; occurs especially in menstruating women using highly absorbent tampons".

What is another word for toxic shock syndrome?

Close synonyms include toxic shock, TSS. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is toxic shock syndrome a common word?

toxic shock syndrome is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.