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traumatic

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Word definitions for traumatic in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body psychologically painful causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty" ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a traumatic event (= very upsetting ) ▪ He was forced to relive the traumatic events of his kidnap. traumatic/harrowing (= one that is shocking and upsetting, and affects you for a long time ) ▪ Having an operation ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. of, caused by, or causing trauma Etymology 2 n. (context dated medicine English) A medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Traumatic \Trau*mat"ic\, a. [L. traumaticus, Gr. ?, from ?, ?, a wound: cf. F. traumatique.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to wounds. --Coxe. Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary. --Wiseman. Produced by wounds; as, traumatic tetanus. -- ...

Usage examples of traumatic.

The prognosis in traumatic anosmia is generally bad, although there is a record of a man who fell while working on a wharf, striking his head and producing anosmia with partial loss of hearing and sight, and who for several weeks neither smelt nor tasted, but gradually recovered.

The Americans arrived anticipating, many of them, a traumatic confrontation with fanatical emperor worshippers.

Grinspoon told him the defendant was one of thousands of people who claim that marijuana is the best thing they can find for controlling the kind of painful spasms associated with quadriplegia, multiple sclerosis, and traumatic nerve injury.

All very regrettable, but only natural: Henry Senior, in his attempt to cure William, has inflicted on the household a series of traumatic shocks, and as a consequence all its servant blood has been drawn away from the peripheries to the beleaguered heart.

Quite possibly, this was her old traumatic paralysis, reinduced by shock.

The experience in Said Ababa had been bad, but nothing like the traumatic one she had just undergone.

And as with pre-Fall humans suffering serious injury or premature death, as Daeman once experienced upon being eaten by an allosaurus, Firmary birth was something so traumatic that it had to be blocked from memory.

Roosa divides the causes into traumatic, hemorrhagic, and inflammatory, and primary lesions of the labyrinth, exemplifying each by numerous instances.

The traumatic birth that damaged the brain of the disfigured man had impaired only a portion of his physical abilities, not the sensitive psychic overdevelopment that enabled his great power.

In the somnambulistic state, however, a subject is under no such influence and is either recapitu- lating or expressing behaviour of an earlier, deeply repressed traumatic experience.

In the somnambulistic state, however, a subject is under no such influence and is either recapitu- lating or expressing behaviour of an earlier, deeply repressed traumatic experience.

Even if something unexpected or traumatic happened, why would he have taken a bus or hitchhiked when he could have driven?

Some of these Herlandist radicals seem to find my arrival more traumatic than that of the Enemy, so long ago.

I found that if we could develop a sensitivity in both parents and children to the influences of the Parent and Child in both, we could begin to work out the best ways to help these youngsters overcome the powerful, subversive not ok recordings made in their early traumatic months and years.

Moreover, especially when dealing with a traumatic experience, such as a horrible crime or accident or a rape or abuse as a child, there is a risk of being retraumatized by this procedure.