ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • a severe and rapid and sometimes fatal hypersensitivity reaction to a substance (especially a vaccine or penicillin or shellfish or insect venom) to which the organism has become sensitized by previous exposure
    Hypernyms(s) anaphylactic shock is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower