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trauma
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun trauma has 2 senses
- trauma(n = noun.state) harm, hurt, injury - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; Array is a kind of health problem, ill health, unhealthiness
- trauma(n = noun.state) psychic trauma - an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects; Array has particulars: birth trauma
has particulars: brain damage, birth trauma, blast trauma, bleeding, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, blunt trauma, bruise, contusion, bump, burn, dislocation, electric shock, break, fracture, cryopathy, frostbite, intravasation, penetrating injury, penetrating trauma, pinch, rupture, bite, insect bite, sting, strain, whiplash, whiplash injury, wale, weal, welt, wheal, lesion, wound, pull, twist, wrench
Derived forms adjective traumatic1, verb traumatise1, verb traumatize1
is a kind of mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state
Derived forms adjective traumatic2, verb traumatize1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
trauma, n. (pl. traumata or traumas)
1 any physical wound or injury.
2 physical shock following this, characterized by a drop in body temperature, mental confusion, etc.
3 Psychol. emotional shock following a stressful event, sometimes leading to long-term neurosis.
1 any physical wound or injury.
2 physical shock following this, characterized by a drop in body temperature, mental confusion, etc.
3 Psychol. emotional shock following a stressful event, sometimes leading to long-term neurosis.
Derivative
traumatize v.tr. (also -ise). traumatization n.
Etymology
Gk trauma traumatos wound
THESAURUS
trauma
abrasion, ambivalence, ambivalence of impulse, anaphylactic shock, battle fatigue, blemish, blow, break, burn, chafe, check, chip, collapse, combat fatigue, concussion, conflict, crack, crackle, craze, cut, decompensation, derangement, disturbance, emotional shock, external frustration, flash burn, fracture, fray, frazzle, frustration, gall, gash, hurt, hypoglycemic shock, incision, injury, laceration, lesion, mental shock, mortal wound, mutilation, neurogenic shock, protein shock, psychological stress, puncture, rent, rip, run, rupture, scald, scorch, scrape, scratch, scuff, second-degree burn, secondary shock, serum shock, shell shock, shock, slash, sore, stab, stab wound, stress, surgical shock, tear, thanatosis, third-degree burn, traumatism, upset, wound, wound shock, wounds immedicable, wrench
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