traumaticadj.n.
/trɔːˈmatɪk/, /traʊˈmatɪk/, U.S. /trɔˈmædɪk/, /trəˈmædɪk/, /trɑˈmædɪk/ A. adj.
1. Of, pertaining to, or caused by a wound, abrasion, or external injury, as traumatic erysipelas, traumatic insanity, traumatic idiocy; †formerly, used for the cure of wounds, vulnerary, as a traumatic balsam, traumatic herb.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > relating to wound
traumatic1656
woundy1660
post-traumatic1872
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations to heal or generate tissue > [adjective] > healing wounds or fractures > healing wounds
aggregativea1400
vulneral1589
vulnerary1599
agglutinating1634
traumatic1656
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Traumatick, belonging to wounds or to the cure of wounds, vulnerary.
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. i. iv. 29 Nature..was assisted the while by Traumatick Decoctions, &c. as in such cases is usual.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 163/1 Inflammation traumatic or idiopathic.
1869 G. Lawson Dis. Eye (1874) 152 Traumatic Cataract, or cataract the result of an injury to the eye.
1889 T. Savill tr. J. M. Charcot Clin. Lect. Dis. Nerv. Syst. III. 304 In the case of our two male patients you have not forgotten that the cause was traumatic, a blow more or less violent on the shoulder.
1913 Times 11 Aug. 13/3 Prof. V. Soubbotitch..presented his military experiences of traumatic aneurysms.
2.
a. Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry. Of, pertaining to, or caused by a psychic wound or emotional shock, esp. leading to or causing behavioural disturbance.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > of or caused by psychic injury
traumatic1889
1889 T. Savill tr. Charcot Clin. Lect. Dis. Nerv. Syst. III. 388 The existence of traumatic psychosis [Fr. psychose traumatique] adds still more to the gravity of the prognosis.
1909 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria i. 1 It is quite evident that in ‘traumatic’ hysteria it is the accident which evokes the syndrome.
1929 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 July 528/2 The Freudian traumatic theory.
1941 S. H. Kraines Therapy Neuroses & Psychoses xv. 352 In the traumatic psychoses, damaged brain tissue is irreparable.
1979 A. Storr Art of Psychotherapy x. 94 Women who react to traumatic events with depression are generally contending with a variety of difficulties.
b. In general use: distressing, emotionally disturbing.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > state of being shocked > [adjective] > shocking
execrable1490
perculsive1609
shocking1703
nerve-shattering1840
eyewatering1950
traumatic1962
1962 A. Huxley Let. 17 June (1969) 935 Memories of traumatic events in childhood.
1965 M. Naylor Your Money ix. 54 You will only have sacrificed one-seventh of your original capital. This is depressing enough, of course, but it is a good deal less traumatic than losing half.
1973 Howard Jrnl. 13 287 It was felt by some that this would..make leaving prison at the end of the sentence less traumatic.
1977 E. Heath Trav. viii. 167 Whatever the outcome, the impact on the United States of the decade of war in Vietnam was traumatic.
1984 Daily Tel. 2 Feb. 2/3 We see manufacturing industry only feebly recovering from the traumatic experience of the last five years.
3. Botany. traumatic acid, a plant hormone that is found in damaged tissue in some plants and promotes its repair; dodec-2-ene-1,12-dioic acid, HOOC(CH2)8CH:CHCOOH.
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the world > life > biology > substance > process stimulators or inhibitors > hormone > [noun] > in plants
hormone1911
wound hormone1921
plant hormone1932
phytohormone1933
auxin1934
heteroauxin1935
florigen1936
traumatic acid1939
abscisin1961
zeatin1963
cytokinin1965
antheridiol1967
abscisic acid1968
oogoniol1975
1939 J. English et al. in Science 6 Oct. 329/2 It would seem appropriate and convenient to refer to this substance as ‘traumatic acid’.
1966 R. M. Devlin Plant Physiol. xvii. 427 The effect of traumatic acid on inducing cells to divide does not appear to be general.
1971 J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xii. 160 In plants..injured cells release a..traumatic acid.
A vulnerary agent or remedy. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations to heal or generate tissue > [noun] > for healing wounds or fractures > for healing wounds
sigillativec1400
apostolicon?c1600
vulnerary1601
traumatic1683
arquebusade1739
1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum i. 18 A very good Traumatick and Vulnerary.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. x. 653/2 An excellent traumatick and vulnerary.
Derivatives
trauˈmatically adv.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adverb] > wound
woundedly1802
traumatically1866
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > state of being shocked > [adverb] > in shocking manner
traumatically1972
1866 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. 138 The same causes are involved in the causation of chronic as of acute pleuritis. It may be produced traumatically.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 771 It [sc. tonsillitis] may occur traumatically.
1910 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers Hysteria (1912) iii. 52 The reproduction of traumatically produced scenes.
1972 D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play viii. 56 His patriotic and anti-communist postures are almost traumatically compulsive.
1976 Listener 11 Nov. 615/1 A view of life, of being, that would lead me ineluctably into false hopes and traumatically real disappointments.
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