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What does trauma mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word trauma? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
  2. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
  3. An event that causes great distress.
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In general, healed injuries are considered to have resulted from trauma during molting or wounds by predatory attack.
One hundred college students retrieved autobiographical memories associated with panic, trauma, worry, and social anxiety.
The locked-in syndrome is caused by an insult to the ventral pons, most commonly an infarct, haemorrhage, or trauma.
Avoid any type of skin trauma this week, such as waxing, laser treatments, microdermabrasion and facials.
Hypovolaemic shock follows major blood loss which may be caused by trauma or during surgery.
Truth commissions ritually invert the position of the victim in the politics of pain by shifting the focus from terror to trauma.

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