traumatic

See also: traumàtic

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹɔːˈmætɪk/

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Etymology 1

From the Latin traumaticus, from the Ancient Greek τραυματικός (traumatikós), from τραῦμα (traûma).

Adjective

traumatic (comparative more traumatic, superlative most traumatic)

1. Of, caused by, or causing trauma.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:

     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.

   • 2011 September 18, Don Thompson, Ken Ritter, Reno air race crash scene shows violence of impact, Associated Press:

     "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."

2. (medicine, dated) Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.
3. (dated) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises:

     traumatick Decoctions

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

   traumatic tetanus; traumatic brain injury

Antonyms

• non-traumatic
• nontraumatic
• untraumatic

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

of, caused by, or causing trauma

Afrikaans: traumaties Armenian: վնասվածքային (vnasvackʻayin) Catalan: traumàtic Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: traumatický Danish: traumatisk Dutch: traumatisch (nl) Esperanto: traŭmata, traŭma Finnish: traumaattinen (fi) French: traumatique (fr) Galician: traumático (gl) Georgian: ტრავმატული (ṭravmaṭuli) German: traumatisch (de) Greek: τραυματικός (el) (travmatikós) Italian: traumatico (it) Japanese: 外傷体験 (gaishō taiken) Kazakh: жарақаттық (jaraqattyq) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Maori: pāmamae (referring to feelings and emotions) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: traumatisk Nynorsk: traumatisk Polish: traumatyczny (pl) Portuguese: traumático (pt) Romanian: traumatic (ro) Russian: травмати́ческий (ru) (travmatíčeskij) Spanish: traumático (es) Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: gây chấn thương, gây sang chấn

Etymology 2

From the Latin [medicāmentum] traumaticum, from traumaticus.

Noun

traumatic (plural traumatics)

1. (dated, medicine) A medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.

Interlingua

Adjective

traumatic (comparative plus traumatic, superlative le plus traumatic)

1. traumatic (pertaining to trauma)

Related terms

• trauma

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French traumatique, from Latin traumaticus. Equivalent to traumă +‎ -atic.

Adjective

traumatic m or n (feminine singular traumatică, masculine plural traumatici, feminine and neuter plural traumatice)

1. traumatic

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	traumatic		traumatică		traumatici	traumatice
	definite	traumaticul		traumatica		traumaticii	traumaticele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	traumatic		traumatice		traumatici	traumatice
	definite	traumaticului		traumaticei		traumaticilor	traumaticelor