SHOCK, NERVOUS
\ʃˈɒk], \ʃˈɒk], \ʃ_ˈɒ_k]\
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Vital Shock, Vital Depression, Nervous Depression, Fatal Sinking. Sudden or instantaneous depression of organic, nervous, or vital power, often with more or less perturbation of body and mind, passing either into reaction, or into fatal sinking, occasioned by the nature, severity or extent of injury, or by an overwhelming moral calamity.-Copland.
By Robley Dunglison
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).