toxic shock: 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
syndrome: a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
anterior meningeal artery: branch of the anterior ethmoidal artery that supplies meninges in the anterior cranial fossa