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Traumatic   /trɔmˈætɪk/   Listen
Traumatic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body.
2.
Psychologically painful.



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"Traumatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... crucifixion seems to include all that pain and death can have of horrible and ghastly—dizziness, cramp, thirst, starvation, sleeplessness, traumatic fever, tetanus, publicity of shame, long continuance of torment, horror of anticipation, mortification of untended wounds—all intensified just up to the point at which they can be endured at all, ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 • Various
... upon his reader's attention the mischief so often wrought, hitherto,—and we fear still frequently brought about,—by over-activity of treatment. Especially does this find its exemplification in the care of traumatic injuries of the eye. Rashness and heroic measures in these cases are as unfortunate for the patient as are the well-meant efforts of friends, when a foreign substance has been inserted into the ear or nose, or a needle broken off in the flesh: what was at first an easily remedied matter ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 62, December, 1862 • Various


Words linked to "Traumatic" :   traumatic epilepsy, painful, trauma


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