English > trauma: 2 senses > noun 1, state| Meaning | Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.. |
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| Synonyms | injury, hurt, harm |
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| Narrower | birth trauma | Physical injury to an infant during the birth process |
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| blast trauma | Injury caused the explosion of a bomb (especially in enclosed spaces) |
| bleeding, hemorrhage, haemorrhage | The flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel |
| blunt trauma | Injury incurred when the human body hits or is hit by a large outside object (as a car) |
| brain damage | Injury to the brain that impairs its functions (especially permanently) |
| bruise, contusion | An injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration |
| bump | A lump on the body caused by a blow / blow |
| burn | An injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation |
| dislocation | A displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column) |
| electric shock | trauma caused by the passage of electric current through the body (as from contact with high voltage lines or being struck by lightning) |
| fracture, break | breaking of hard tissue such as bone |
| frostbite, cryopathy | Destruction of tissue by freezing / freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene |
| intravasation | entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel |
| penetrating trauma, penetrating injury | Injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body |
| pinch | An injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed |
| rupture | state of being torn or burst open |
| sting, bite, insect bite | A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin |
| strain | Injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse) |
| wale, welt, weal, wheal | A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow / blow of a whip) |
| whiplash, whiplash injury | An injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident) |
| wound, lesion | An injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) |
| wrench, twist, pull | A sharp strain on muscles or ligaments |
| Broader | ill health, unhealthiness, health problem | A state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain |
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| Spanish | contusión, daño, herida, lesión, mal, trauma, traumatismo |
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| Catalan | contusió, dany, ferida, lesió, mal, trauma, traumatisme |
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| Adjectives | traumatic | of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body |
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| Verbs | traumatize, traumatise | inflict a trauma upon |
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