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1. n. 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 Source: wordnet

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absorbent acute associated characterized diarrhea diffuse erythema fatal fever highly infection menstruating nausea occurs presence resulting serious shock sometimes staphylococcus syndrome tampons women

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