traumatism
Americannoun
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any abnormal condition produced by a trauma.
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the trauma or wound itself.
noun
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any abnormal bodily condition caused by injury, wound, or shock
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(not in technical usage) another name for trauma
Etymology
Origin of traumatism
First recorded in 1855–60, traumatism is from the Late Greek word traumatismós a wounding. See traumatic, -ism
Example Sentences
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Paralysis of the right leg and traumatism of the spine had been his, up to that day.
From Lourdes by Benson, Robert Hugh
And he grew technical, spoke of blood pressures taken, of traumatism superinducing prolonged coma, of this and that which made no impression on the banker.
From The Bells of San Juan by Gregory, Jackson
He described several cases, and through an interpreter found that they were congenital, followed no history of traumatism, caused little inconvenience, and were unassociated with disturbance of the sense of smell.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
To understand the position of Breuer and Freud we may start from the phenomenon of "nervous shock" produced by physical traumatism, often of a very slight character.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Ellis, Havelock
They began by regarding the most typical hysteria as really a psychic traumatism; that is to say, that it starts in a lesion, or rather in repeated lesions, of the emotional organism.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Ellis, Havelock
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