traumatic
[truh-mat-ik, traw-, trou-]
- of, relating to, or produced by a trauma or wound.
- adapted to the cure of wounds.
- psychologically painful.
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Origin of traumatic
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Contemporary Examples
If you think divorce between two people is messy and traumatic, imagine divorcing yourself.
I am only able to ignore because I have had to have these conversations in person and that is the most traumatic experience.
It is often the least visible but sometimes deadliest of injuries: traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Some people, with traumatic events, you get closer or you get further away.
The Good Wife’s Secret Weapon: Matt Czuchry on Cary Agos’s Terrible, Horrible YearKevin Fallon
October 27, 2014
He also was diagnosed with “head, neck, wrist and back injuries – and the biggest was TBI, or traumatic brain injury.”
Historical Examples
Megaloblasts on the contrary are never found in traumatic anæmias.
Histology of the BloodPaul Ehrlich
It is also suitable for cases of traumatic and paralytic origin.
This way at least the loss of his wife was not as traumatic as it might have been.
Voyage To EternityMilton Lesser
In other words, when she couldn't communicate, she went into this traumatic shock.
Occasion for DisasterGordon Randall Garrett
The traumatic form is excessively obstinate and intractable.
Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble itFrancis E. Anstie
Word Origin and History for traumatic
adj.
1650s, from Late Latin traumaticus, from Greek traumatikos "pertaining to a wound," from trauma (see trauma).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper