trauma
noun[UorC]
uk/ˈtrɔː.mə//ˈtraʊ.mə/us/ˈtrɑː.mə/traumanoun[U or C](SHOCK)
C2
severeandlastingemotionalshockandpaincausedby anextremelyupsettingexperience, or acaseof suchshockhappening:
the traumaofmarriagebreakdown婚姻破裂带来的心理创伤
He hadpsychotherapytohelphimdealwith hischildhoodtraumas.他进行了心理治疗以医治童年时代受到的心理创伤。
- Childrenexposedtochronicstressor trauma may also haveproblemswithlearning,memoryandconcentration.
- The two menbondedovertheirsharedtraumas.
- They need alawyerand they needsupportfor the trauma that they havesufferedfor the past twomonths.
Mental illnesses
- ad
- adjustment disorder
- age-associated memory impairment
- anhedonia
- anorexia nervosa
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- hoarder
- hoarding
- Hyde
- hypochondriac
- hypochondriasis
- hysterical
- Jekyll and Hyde
- nervous breakdown
- psychosis
- self-alienation
- senility
- somatization
- somatize
- Stockholm syndrome
traumanoun[U or C](INJURY)
medicalspecialized
physicalinjury, usuallycausedby anaccidentorattack, or acaseof suchinjuryhappening:
Centralpainsyndromecanresultfrom traumatothebrainorspinalcord.
tosufferbrain/headtrauma
She wascarriedoff on astretcherand taken to the traumacentreat the city's Mercy Hospital.
Infection in apersonrecoveringfrom a trauma such as acaraccidentorsevereburnscan be asdeadlyas theincidentitself.
- Youngpeopletendto have abetterlikelihoodofrecoveringfrombraintrauma.
- Athletes neededucatingwithrespectto therisksofrepeatedheadtrauma.
- Headache can becausedbycirculationproblemsor trauma.
- Shesustainedsevereheadtrauma andpermanentandirreversiblebraindamage.
- Lymphedema can be inheritable orresultfrom a trauma.
Injuring and injuries
- at-risk
- be in the warsidiom
- bite
- boo-boo
- cripple
- disable
- harm
- incapacitate
- injure
- injury
- lesion
- lesional
- reinjure
- reinjury
- scarred
- scathe
- sprain
- strain
- victim
- wounded