TRAUMA (traumata)

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Irregular inflected form: traumata   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does trauma mean? 

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

1. any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

2. an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects

  Familiarity information: TRAUMA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAUMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

harm; hurt; injury; trauma

Hypernyms ("trauma" is a kind of...):

health problem; ill health; unhealthiness (a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trauma"):

break; fracture (breaking of hard tissue such as bone)

pull; twist; wrench (a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments)

lesion; wound (an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin))

wale; weal; welt; wheal (a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions)

whiplash; whiplash injury (an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident))

strain (injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain)

bite; insect bite; sting (a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin)

rupture (state of being torn or burst open)

pinch (an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed)

penetrating injury; penetrating trauma (injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body)

intravasation (entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel)

cryopathy; frostbite (destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene)

electric shock (trauma caused by the passage of electric current through the body (as from contact with high voltage lines or being struck by lightning); usually involves burns and abnormal heart rhythm and unconsciousness)

dislocation (a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column))

burn (an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation)

bump (a lump on the body caused by a blow)

bruise; contusion (an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration)

blunt trauma (injury incurred when the human body hits or is hit by a large outside object (as a car))

bleeding; haemorrhage; hemorrhage (the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel)

blast trauma (injury caused the explosion of a bomb (especially in enclosed spaces))

birth trauma (physical injury to an infant during the birth process)

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.)

Derivation:

traumatic (of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body)

traumatise; traumatize (inflict a trauma upon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

psychic trauma; trauma

Hypernyms ("trauma" is a kind of...):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trauma"):

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)

Derivation:

traumatic (psychologically painful)

traumatize (inflict a trauma upon)

 Context examples 

It is caused by irritation or trauma to a nerve or inflammation of a nerve.

(Neuralgia, NCI Thesaurus)

Causes include brain maturation delays and brain traumas or tumors.

(Central Auditory Processing Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

History of trauma may be present.

(Non-Specific Granulomatous Orchitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Causes include alcohol consumption, presence of gallstones, trauma, and drugs.

(Acute Pancreatitis, NCI Thesaurus)

They are most often developmental or related to trauma.

(Arachnoid Cyst, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Causes include trauma, infectious disorders, and connective tissue disorders.

(Aortitis, NCI Thesaurus)

These may be the result of substance use, trauma, or other causes.

(Organic Mental Disorder, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The findings potentially open the door to new treatments for eye trauma and retinal disease.

(Researchers unlock regenerative potential of cells in the mouse retina, National Institutes of Health)

It may develop following trauma and invasive procedures.

(Necrotizing Fasciitis, NCI Thesaurus)

It usually affects boys and there is a history of trauma.

(Periosteal Desmoid Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)