Definition of trauma Trauma
/tɹɔˈmʌ/ - [tromu] - trau•ma
We found 8 definitions of trauma from 5 different sources.
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What does trauma mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: traumas |
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| trauma - an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects | ||
| psychic trauma | ||
| mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic; "a manic state" | ||
| trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. | ||
| injury, hurt, harm | ||
| health problem, ill health, unhealthiness a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain | ||
| brain damage injury to the brain that impairs its functions (especially permanently); can be caused by trauma to the head, infection, hemorrhage, inadequate oxygen, genetic abnormality, etc. | ||
| birth trauma emotional injury inflicted on an infant by events incident to birth that is alleged to appear in symbolic form in patients with mental illness | ||
| blast trauma injury caused the explosion of a bomb (especially in enclosed spaces) | ||
| bleeding, haemorrhage, hemorrhage the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | ||
| blunt trauma injury incurred when the human body hits or is hit by a large outside object (as a car) | ||
| bruise, contusion an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration | ||
| bump a lump on the body caused by a blow | ||
| burn damage inflicted by fire | ||
| dislocation the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue; "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London" | ||
| electric shock a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body; "subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response"; "electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks" | ||
| fracture, break the act of cracking something | ||
| cryopathy, frostbite destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene | ||
| intravasation entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel | ||
| penetrating injury, penetrating trauma injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body | ||
| pinch a squeeze with the fingers | ||
| rupture the act of making a sudden noisy break | ||
| insect bite, sting, bite a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin | ||
| strain an intense or violent exertion | ||
| whiplash injury, whiplash an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident) | ||
| weal, wheal, wale, welt thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship | ||
| lesion, wound any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part | ||
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Wiktionary 
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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trauma
traw′ma, n. an abnormal condition of the body caused by external injury.—adj. Traumat′ic, produced by wounds.—adv. Traumat′ically.—n. Traum′atism, trauma. [Gr., a wound.]
Wikipedia 
- Trauma is the name doctors have for an injury. Depending on what was injured there are different kinds of traumas.
