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TRAUMATIC

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Psychologically painful

Example:

few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

painful (causing physical or psychological pain)

Derivation:

trauma (an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

Derivation:

trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The findings suggest that traumatic microbleeds are a form of injury to brain blood vessels and may predict worse outcomes.

(Microbleeds may worsen outcome after head injury, National Institutes of Health)

Damage to the aorta from traumatic or pathologic processes.

(Aortic Injury, NCI Thesaurus)

These results may help provide clues to the discovery that the meninges in humans may heal following mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and why additional hits to the head can be so devastating.

(Scientists watch the brain’s lining heal after a head injury, National Institutes of Health)

Types include: • Panic disorder • Obsessive-compulsive disorder • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Phobias • Generalized anxiety disorder

(Anxiety, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

Traumatic or pathological injury to the ankle joint in which the continuity of an ankle bone is broken.

(Ankle Fracture, NCI Thesaurus)

An anxiety disorder precipitated by an experience of intense fear or horror while exposed to a traumatic (especially life-threatening) event.

(Acute Stress Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

A traumatic or pathologic injury to the femur in which the continuity of the femur is broken.

(Femur Fracture, NCI Thesaurus)

Efforts in neural development; neurodegeneration, especially in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, mental illness and traumatic injury to the brain and spinal cord are few examples of the promise of this field.

(Biology of the Brain Disorders, NCI Thesaurus)

This is important because hospitalized children experience IV insertion as a very painful and stressful event, and they can have post-traumatic stress symptoms if their pain is not adequately controlled.

(Better IV Insertion Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Dysfunction of one or more cranial nerves causally related to a traumatic injury.

(Cranial Nerve Injury, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)