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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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Truth commissions ritually invert the position of the victim in the politics of pain by shifting the focus from terror to trauma.
Soft plastic mouth guards, or occlusal splints, may be needed to prevent damage from trauma, as in sports injuries, or bruxism.
Hypovolaemic shock follows major blood loss which may be caused by trauma or during surgery.
Avoid any type of skin trauma this week, such as waxing, laser treatments, microdermabrasion and facials.
For a lot of pro sportsmen that kind of trauma can send them off the rails.
The injured were immediately rushed to the trauma centre at Karnal where 10 persons are said to be out of danger.

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