traumat-, traumato-, trauma-, traum-, -trauma, -traumatic, -traumatically +

A reference to a psychological reaction caused by a situation in which the physical or psychological wellbeing of a person or someone close to him or her is threatened.

Psychotrauma occurs whenever the overall security balance of someone is threatened in any way. This includes events which threaten the physical safety of a person as well as events which threaten that person's economic and/or emotional wellbeing, or the wellbeing of those who are close to him/her.

1. A serious injury or shock to the body, as from violence or an accident.
2. An emotional wound or shock that creates substantial, lasting damage to the psychological development of a person, which may lead to neurosis.
3. An event or situation that causes great distress and disruption.
4. Any injury, whether physically or emotionally inflicted.

Trauma has both a medical and a psychiatric definition:

• Medically, trauma refers to a serious or critical bodily injury, wound, or shock.
• In psychiatry, trauma has assumed a different meaning and refers to an experience that is emotionally painful, distressful, or shocking, which often results in lasting mental and physical conditions.

A hospital unit specializing in the treatment of patients with acute and especially life-threatening traumatic injuries.

Nervous exhaustion following an injury.

The treatment of wounds and injuries, or traumas; as a result of a physical damage.

1. Extremely distressing, frightening, or shocking, and sometimes having long-term psychological effects.
2. Relating to a physical injury or wound to the body.
3. Causing physical, or especially, psychological injury.

An amputation resulting from direct trauma.

The loss of sensation due to injury of a nerve.

An aneurysm (localized widening or dilatation of an artery, vein, or the heart) produced by injury; such as, crushing, or following a stab or gunshot wound; as distinguished from one resulting from disease.

A seizure associated with, or due to, an acute brain injury; such as, a concussion or contusion.

Chronic brain disorder with the loss of intellectual functioning resulting from a severe cerebral injury.

A syndrome due to cumulative punishment absorbed in the boxing ring, characterized by the general slowing of mental functions, occasional bouts of confusion, and scattered memory loss.

An increase in bodily temperature following an injury or a serious wound.

1. In aerospace medicine, acute noninflammatory pathologic changes produced in the lungs by a large momentary deceleration.

The principal changes are hemorrhage, emphysema, and laceration.

2. Lung disease brought on by trauma.

A growth-promoting substance in plants that may be chemically identical with traumatic acid (a hormone produced by a plant that stimulates the production of wound periderm at the point of an injury to the plant).