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    Shell shock
    /ˈSHel ˌSHäk/

    noun

    • 1. a condition with psychological and psychosomatic symptoms resulting from exposure to active warfare, first identified in soldiers undergoing bombardment in the trenches in World War I. Shell shock would now be regarded as a form of post-traumatic stress disorder: "in July 1917 he was sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital, suffering from shell shock"