Term: toxic shock: syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus; characterized by fever and diarrhea and nausea and diffuse erythema and shock; occurs especially in menstruating women using highly absorbent tampons
Candidate hypernym: syndrome: a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease → 1
Candidate hypernym: anterior meningeal artery: branch of the anterior ethmoidal artery that supplies meninges in the anterior cranial fossa → 0
Candidate hypernym: beef fondue: cubes of beef cooked in hot oil and then dipped in various tasty sauces → 0
Candidate hypernym: youth movement: political or religious or social reform movement or agitation consisting chiefly of young people → 0
Candidate hypernym: aleuria aurantia: a discomycete with bright orange cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting bodies and pale orange exteriors → 0
Candidate hypernym: water moccasin: venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: whole snipe: common snipe of Eurasia and Africa → 0
Candidate hypernym: cession: the act of ceding → 0
Candidate hypernym: pyuria: presence of white blood cells in the urine; symptom of urinary tract infection → 0
Candidate hypernym: sialadenitis: inflammation of the salivary glands → 0
Candidate hypernym: vaporizer: a device that puts out a substance in the form of a vapor (especially for medicinal inhalation) → 0