Traumatic definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary TRAUMAT'IC, a. [Gr. a ... to the body 2: psychologically painful;"few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child"; Merriam Webster's adjective see trauma ... trauma. 2 colloq. (in general use) distressing; emotionally disturbing (a traumatic experience). 3 of or for wounds. Derivatives: traumatically adv. Etymology ... traumaticus f. Gk traumatikos (as TRAUMA) Webster's 1913 Dictionary Traumatic Trau*mat"ic, a. [L. traumaticus, Gr. ?, from ?, ?, a wound ... cure of wounds; vulnerary. --Wiseman. (c) Produced by wounds; as, traumatic tetanus. -- n. A traumatic medicine. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary A traumatic experience is ...
post-traumatic stress disorder definitions Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1980 a ... of reminders of the event — abbreviation PTSD; called also post-traumatic stress syndrome Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental illness that can develop after ...
traumatic epilepsy definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a ... epileptic state caused by a head injury [syn: posttraumatic epilepsy, traumatic epilepsy]
... 0 (2005) n 1: an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving ... syn: posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD] Merriam Webster's abbreviation post-traumatic stress disorder Collin's Cobuild Dictionary PTSD is an abbreviation for post-traumatic stress disorder.