traumatic

comparative more traumatic · superlative most traumatic

1. Of, caused by, or causing trauma.

   "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."

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

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   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.

   1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII

2. datedmedicineOf or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.
3. datedAdapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.

   traumatick Decoctions

   1676, Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises

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

   traumatic tetanus; traumatic brain injury

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   Repeated trauma or shaking to the brain can be even worse, leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

   2020 January 26, Leah Asmelash, “Why traumatic brain injuries can be dangerous”, in CNN

plural traumatics

1. datedmedicineA medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.