traumatism

[ trou-muh-tiz-uhm, traw- ]

noun

, Pathology.

1. any abnormal condition produced by a trauma.
2. the trauma or wound itself.

traumatism

/ ˈtrɔːməˌtɪzəm /

noun

1. any abnormal bodily condition caused by injury, wound, or shock
2. (not in technical usage) another name for trauma

Word History and Origins

Origin of traumatism¹

First recorded in 1855–60, traumatism is from the Late Greek word traumatismós a wounding. See traumatic, -ism

Example Sentences

“A form Grave Location Blank says he was buried 1 July 1918 in grave number 191 in Brest. In another document, sent 8 July 1918 to the quartermaster general in Washington, it speaks of ‘traumatism, May 23rd, crushing, Herbert L. Sylvester.

From Washington Times

Thrombi are usually divided into those from compression, dilatation, traumatism, and marasmus; in all of which groups an abnormal condition of the endothelium is to be met with.

From Project Gutenberg

Inflammatory complications are usually due to undue traumatism at the time of the inoculation, to injury of the pock, or to the previous existence of a cutaneous disease or of some dyscrasia.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus, traumatic erysipelas is much more closely related to childbed fever than the varieties of the disease appearing upon the head and face, which cannot be attributed to traumatism, surgical accidents, dental abscesses, or local injuries of the antrum of Highmore.

From Project Gutenberg

I have the records of a number of cases occurring during an epidemic of puerperal fever in which patients were either attacked with fever previous to parturition, or in whose cases the unusual length of labor, the frequency of post-partum hemorrhage, and the imperfect contraction of the uterus immediately after confinement were signs of some abnormal influence exercised upon the economy at an early period of labor previous to the existence of traumatism.

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