trauma
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mə, ˈtrɔ- noun, plural trau·mas, trau·ma·ta [-muh-tuh] .
[-muh-tuh] . 1.
Pathology.
a.
a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident.
b.
the condition produced by this; traumatism.
2.
Psychiatry.
a.
an experience that produces psychological injury or pain.
b.
the psychological injury so caused.
Origin:
1685–95; < Greek traûma wound
1685–95; < Greek traûma wound
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| —n , pl -mata, -mas | |
| 1. | psychol a powerful shock that may have long-lasting effects |
| 2. | pathol any bodily injury or wound |
| [C18: from Greek: a wound] | |
| traumatic | |
| —adj | |
| trau'matically | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
trauma
1656 (implied in traumatic), "physical wound," from Gk. trauma "wound," from PIE *tro-, *trau-, from base *tere- "to rub, turn" (see throw (v.)). Sense of "psychic wound, unpleasant experience which causes abnormal stress" is implied in traumatic, in psychological jargon 1889.
Traumatize in the psychological sense is attested from 1949.
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Medical Dictionary
trauma trau·ma (trô'mə, trou'-)
n. pl. trau·mas or trau·ma·ta (-mə-tə)
A serious bodily injury or shock, as from violence or an accident.
An emotional wound or shock that creates substantial lasting damage to one's psychological development, often leading to neurosis.
trau·mat'ic (-māt'ĭk) adj.
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Cultural Dictionary
trauma [(trow-muh, traw-muh)]Wounds that result from sudden physical injury or violence.
Note: The term is frequently used to describe an emotional shock that causes serious psychological damage.
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Example sentences
People with that type of physical trauma rarely became patients.
As far as our neurons are concerned, emotional distress is physical trauma.
One of the injured, said the hospital director, had severe brain trauma and was not expected to survive another night.
Pain and trauma have always been part of having an operation.
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