BIRTH TRAUMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does birth trauma mean? 

• BIRTH TRAUMA (noun)
  The noun BIRTH TRAUMA has 2 senses:

1. physical injury to an infant during the birth process

2. emotional injury inflicted on an infant by events incident to birth that is alleged to appear in symbolic form in patients with mental illness

  Familiarity information: BIRTH TRAUMA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIRTH TRAUMA (noun)

Sense 1

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.)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

An abnormally shrill or screeching vocalization made by infants that could possibly indicate the presence of one of an array of medical conditions or congenital syndromes, including birth trauma, craniosynostosis, Arnold-Chiari deformity, meningitis, and cri-du-chat syndrome.

(High Pitched Cry, NCI Thesaurus)