traumatic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   psychologically painful

   few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child

2. 2
   adj

   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 other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.

3. 3
   adj

   Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.

   traumatick Decoctions

4. 4
   adj

   Produced by wounds, especially as opposed to disease or other process.

   traumatic tetanus; traumatic brain injury

5. 5
   adj

   of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body

6. 6
   adj

   Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.

7. 7
   noun

   A medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.

Etymology

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