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BIRTH TRAUMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Emotional injury inflicted on an infant by events incident to birth that is alleged to appear in symbolic form in patients with mental illness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("birth trauma" is a kind of...):
psychic trauma; trauma (an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Physical injury to an infant during the birth process
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("birth trauma" is a kind of...):
harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)
