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insulin shock

noun

Pathology.
  1. a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of insulin shock1

First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences

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Doctors had experimented with insulin shock therapy and Electro-Convulsive Therapy with limited success and asylums were filled with patients, including shell-shocked soldiers, who had no hope of a cure, or of going home.

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"You know how come. She had diabetes. She went into a insulin shock."

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Songs many of us have heard our whole lives sentimentalized, usually arranged with enough saccharine to produce insulin shock, are given weight and take on deep meaning.

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The aggregate effect is like aesthetic insulin shock, albeit from an artificial sweetener.

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Elizabeth’s life with diabetes has not been without high and low sugar episodes; one such episode left her in insulin shock, unconscious for an entire day before being found, she said.

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