TRAUMA
\tɹˈɔːmə], \tɹˈɔːmə], \t_ɹ_ˈɔː_m_ə]\
Definitions of TRAUMA
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.
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traw'ma, n. an abnormal condition of the body caused by external injury.--adj. TRAUMAT'IC, produced by wounds.--adv. TRAUMAT'ICALLY.--n. TRAUM'ATISM, trauma. [Gr., a wound.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Alexander Duane
By Sir Augustus Henry
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