Look up: trauma

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   Trauma
   Wounds or injuries caused directly by violent contact of external objects with the body of the animal.
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   trauma
   [Noun] When something very upsetting happens.
   Example: The trauma of losing his job left Jeff unhappy for a while.
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   trauma
   [n] - an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects
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   Trauma
   (1) [Greek = wound.] Alternative term for physical injury, as in traumatic head injury. [Contrast trauma (2).] (2) [Greek = wound.] Alternative term for mental injury, as in cases of selective amnesias brought about by psychologically shocking or hurtful experiences such as combat where there is no direct physical injury. One of Freud's main contributions to our understanding of the unconscious mind was his insistence that we seek out the traumas we had somehow locked away within ourselves.
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   Trauma
   physical injury or emotional shock
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   Trauma
   A wound or injury
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   Trauma
   A bodily injury or wound.
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   Trauma
   Trauma: Any injury, whether physically or emotionally inflicted. 'Trauma' has both a medical and a psychiatric definition. Medically, 'trauma' refers to a serious or critical bodily injury, wound, or shock. This definition is often associated with trauma medicine practiced in emergency rooms and represents a popular view of the term. In psychiatry, ...
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   trauma
   in general, any injury; In emergency work, refers mainly to accidents with wounds, fractures of bodily harm; Multiple trauma or multitrauma refers to a combination of injuries to several parts or organs of the body in a major accident Category: Management in the public and private sector • any injury,wound,or shock,must frequently physical or structural shock,producing a disturbance
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    Trauma
    A physical injury, wound or shock caused by an external force.
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    trauma
    Injury. ... (16 Dec 1997) ...
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    trauma
    noun an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects
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    trauma
    (traw´mә) (trou´mә) pl. traumas, trau´mata injury. psychological or emotional damage. adj., traumat´ic., adj. birth trauma an injury to the infant during the process of being born. 2. in some psychiatric theories, the psychic shock produc...
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    trauma
    (from the article `therapeutics`) Trauma is one of the leading causes of loss of potential years of life. The explosion in the development of medical instrumentation and technology ... [9 related articles]
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    trauma
    trauma 1. A serious injury or shock to the body, as from violence or an accident. 2. An emotional wound or shock that creates substantial, lasting damage to the psychological development of a person, which may lead to neurosis. 3. An event or situation that causes great distress and disruption. 4. Any injury, whether physically or emotionally inflicted...
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