TRAUMATIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does traumatic mean? 

• TRAUMATIC (adjective)
  The adjective TRAUMATIC has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body

2. psychologically painful

  Familiarity information: TRAUMATIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAUMATIC (adjective)

Sense 1

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.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Psychologically painful

Context example:

few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child

Similar:

painful (causing physical or psychological pain)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

A better understanding of the biological foundations of these mechanisms may help researchers develop improved treatments to help people forget traumatic events.

(Selective amnesia: how rats and humans are able to actively forget distracting memories, University of Cambridge)

This approach could lead to precise treatments for traumatic brain injury (TBI).

(Every cell has a story to tell in brain injury, National Institutes of Health)

A protein previously linked to acute symptoms following a traumatic brain injury (TBI), may also be responsible for long-term complications that can result from TBI, according to a new research.

(Key protein found to have role in long-term complications from traumatic brain injury, NIH)

Damage to an artery from traumatic or pathologic processes.

(Arterial Injury, NCI Thesaurus)

A rupture in the wall of the extrahepatic or intrahepatic bile duct due to traumatic or pathologic processes.

(Bile Duct Perforation, NCI Thesaurus)

Death of bone tissue due to traumatic or nontraumatic causes.

(Bone Necrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A rupture in the bladder wall due to traumatic or pathologic processes.

(Bladder Perforation, NCI Thesaurus)

A traumatic injury to the head.

(Head Injury, NCI Thesaurus)

A traumatic injury to the bone in which the continuity of the bone is broken.

(Fracture, NCI Thesaurus)

Sensory or motor loss of peripheral nerve function due to a traumatic event.

(Peripheral Nerve Injury, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)