Talk:shock

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".

Penglish (talk) 15:36, 17 September 2012 (UTC)