Medical Definition of Chronic shock

1. The state of peripheral circulatory insufficiency developing in elderly patients with a debilitating disease, e.g., carcinoma; a subnormal blood volume makes the patient susceptible to haemorrhagic shock as a result of even a moderate blood loss such as may occur during an operation. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chronic Shock

chronic pancreatitis: surgical treatment
chronic persistent hepatitis
chronic persisting hepatitis
chronic phase
chronic pleurisy
chronic pneumonia
chronic progressive chorea
chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia
chronic progressive syphilitic meningoencephalitis
chronic pyelonephritis
chronic rejection
chronic renal failure
chronic respiratory disease
chronic rheumatism
chronic rhinitis
chronic shock (current term)
chronic soroche
chronic subglottic laryngitis
chronic symptomatic HIV infection
chronic tamponade
chronic toxicity
chronic traumatic encephalopathy
chronic trypanosomiasis
chronic ulcer
chronic ulcerative proctitis
chronic urticaria
chronic venous insufficiency
chronic vertigo
chronic wasting disease
chronical

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