traumatic

Of, caused by, or causing trauma.

Adjective

  1. Of, caused by, or causing trauma.
    • It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic symplegia, that's it. This cat has traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where...
    • "I've seen more patients, but never this many patients with this number of severe injuries," said Dr. Michael Morkin, chief of Renown's emergency department[…]. "It was traumatic." - 2011 September 18, Don Thompson, Ken...
  2. Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.
  3. Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
    • traumatick Decoctions - 1676, Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises:
  4. Produced by wounds, especially as opposed to disease or other process.
    • traumatic tetanus; traumatic brain injury
    • Repeated trauma or shaking to the brain can be even worse, leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. - 2020 January 26, Leah Asmelash, “Why traumatic brain injuries can be dangerous”, in CNN:

Origin

From the Latin traumaticus, from the Ancient Greek τραυματικός (traumatikós), from τραῦμα (traûma). By surface analysis, trauma + -tic.

Forms

more traumatic most traumatic

Antonyms

non-traumatic nontraumatic untraumatic

Derived

atraumatic barotraumatic biotraumatic calciotraumatic chronic traumatic encephalopathy geotraumatic monotraumatic neurotraumatic peritraumatic phonotraumatic polytraumatic post-traumatic posttraumatic post-traumatic stress disorder pretraumatic psychotraumatic traumatic acid traumatically traumatic alopecia traumatic amenorrhea traumatic amputation traumatic anesthesia traumatic arrest traumatic asphyxia

Noun

  1. A medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.

Origin

From the Latin [medicāmentum] traumaticum, from traumaticus.

Forms

traumatics