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  • adjective Able to be shocked
  • adjective Easily shocked

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  • adjective capable of being shocked

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Examples

  • The research focused on "shockable" forms - ventricular fibrillation (unco-ordinated contraction of the heart) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (excessively fast heart rhythm that fails to produce a pulse).

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ANDRÉ PICARD 2011

  • The researchers noted, however, that about 80 per cent of people who suffered cardiac arrest in public had a condition that was "shockable," compared with 36 per cent of those who arrested at home.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ANDRÉ PICARD 2011

  • The researchers noted, however, that about 80 per cent of people who suffered cardiac arrest in public had a condition that was "shockable," compared with 36 per cent of those who arrested at home.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ANDRÉ PICARD 2011

  • The research focused on "shockable" forms - ventricular fibrillation (unco-ordinated contraction of the heart) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (excessively fast heart rhythm that fails to produce a pulse).

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ANDRÉ PICARD 2011

  • The research focused on "shockable" forms - ventricular fibrillation (unco-ordinated contraction of the heart) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (excessively fast heart rhythm that fails to produce a pulse).

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ANDRÉ PICARD 2011

  • The researchers noted, however, that about 80 per cent of people who suffered cardiac arrest in public had a condition that was "shockable," compared with 36 per cent of those who arrested at home.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ANDRÉ PICARD 2011

  • Also note that an AED will not shock the patient unless they have a "shockable" heart rythm (V-Fib or V-Tach).

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2008

  • But I was in my late teens or early twenties when I read the diaries and I think I was much less shockable then than I am now …

    Monstrous? « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

  • But businessmen, I have since come to realize, are the least shockable of characters, far less so than soldiers and politicians.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre is particularly gruesome, and I'm not easily shockable.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

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