Damaged hearing when a user of a listening device suffers from a sudden loud noise: Monroe's hearing was seriously harmed by an acoustic shock while he was listening to music because at first it was too low, and when he turned the sound up, it jumped up much higher than he had intended for it to be.

1. A shock resulting from an abnormal burning of fuel in an internal combustion engine which is caused by preignition or fuel-air detonation; or in a diesel engine, the uncontrolled burning of fuel accumulated in a combustion chamber.
2. A sudden disturbance in an internal combustion engine which occurs when the fuel is being improperly burned because of ignition or control errors.

A treatment in which convulsions are induced by passing a low-voltage alternating electric current through the brain.

The use of such a technique is used in psychology, or psychiatry, to treat severe psychiatric disorders.

1. In medicine, a method of stimulating an excitable tissue; such as, a nerve or muscle, by applying a short electrical current and the immediate effects resulting from such stimulation.
2. A traumatic physical state caused by the passage of electric currents through the body.
3. The sudden pain, convulsion, unconsciousness, or death produced by the passage of electric current through a body.
4. Injury from electricity that varies according to the type and strength of current and length and location of the contacts.

It usually involves an accidental contact with exposed parts of electric circuits in home appliances and domestic power supplies; however, it may also result from lightning or contact with high-voltage wires.

Electric shocks range from trivial burns to complete charring and destruction of skin. They may also cause unconsciousness from paralysis of the respiratory center, fibrillation of the heart, or both depending on the intensity of the electric current, the type of current, and the duration and the frequency of the current flow.

Alternating current (AC), direct current (DC), and mixed currents cause different kinds and different degrees of damage to the body.

Burns and the loss of consciousness are a couple of the symptoms of electrical injury.

A gas-filled tube used in plasma physics to suddenly ionize a gas.

A capacitor bank charged to a high voltage is discharged into the gas at one tube end to ionize and heat the gas, producing a shock wave that may be studied as it travels down the tube.

1. An intense electromagnetic wave resulting from the coincidence of several waves of different velocities in a nonlinear dispersive medium.
2. An electromagnetic wave of significant intensity that results when waves with different intensities propagate with different velocities in a nonlinear optical medium, and faster-traveling waves from a pulse of light catch up with preceding, slower traveling waves.

A serious, abnormal condition that occurs when an overwhelming bacterial contamination leads to low blood pressure and low blood flow: Vital organs, such as the brain, heart, kidneys, and liver may not function properly or may fail during a septic shock.

Toxins or poisons that are released by a bacteria, or fungus, may cause direct tissue damage to the body and can lead to low blood pressure and poor organ functions which cause a strong inflammatory response from the body that contributes to a septic shock.

A tubular spring damper operated by rod and piston which is considered to be the most common type of mechanical damper: The mechanic installed new telescopic shock absorbers on his pickup truck.