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  • adjective medicine Resembling or characteristic of shock.

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shock +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Movement patterns in the newborn that are more likely to be seizures would be breath holding with body stiffening, local jerky movements of one limb or both on one side, many focuses of jerky movements, shocklike contractions, deviations of the eyes upward or to the side, and even laughing.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • Movement patterns in the newborn that are more likely to be seizures would be breath holding with body stiffening, local jerky movements of one limb or both on one side, many focuses of jerky movements, shocklike contractions, deviations of the eyes upward or to the side, and even laughing.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • Movement patterns in the newborn that are more likely to be seizures would be breath holding with body stiffening, local jerky movements of one limb or both on one side, many focuses of jerky movements, shocklike contractions, deviations of the eyes upward or to the side, and even laughing.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • Movement patterns in the newborn that are more likely to be seizures would be breath holding with body stiffening, local jerky movements of one limb or both on one side, many focuses of jerky movements, shocklike contractions, deviations of the eyes upward or to the side, and even laughing.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • The witches can’t associate with him; my touch had a shocklike effect on him.

    Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010

  • (duloxetine), Effexor (venlafaxine), Paxil (paroxetine) or Zoloft (sertraline) they might experience dizziness, nausea, sweating, insomnia, headaches, nervousness and electrical shocklike sensations.

    OnlineAthens: Top Headlines 2009

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