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Pos: Noun
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun trauma has 2 senses

1.  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
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

2.  trauma(n = noun.state) psychic trauma - an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects; Array
is a kind of mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state
has particulars: birth trauma
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.

Derivative:
traumatize v.tr. (also -ise). traumatization n.

Etymology:
Gk trauma traumatos wound


[RELATED WORDS]

birth trauma, blast trauma, blunt trauma, penetrating trauma, psychic trauma