[
US
/ˈtɹɔmə/
]
[ UK /tɹˈɔːmɐ/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈɔːmɐ/ ]
NOUN
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
- an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects
How To Use trauma In A Sentence
- In these experiments, test subjects with maladies ranging from severe brain trauma to bipolar disorder undergo a battery of visual tests.
- She denied hemoptysis, fever, trauma, or history of blood clots in her or her family.
- This amusing little bon mot v ill-timed by me as I think she had post-traumatic test disorder because she burst into tears. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
- His traumatised son was expelled from two schools. Times, Sunday Times
- Such pulmonary embolisms, leading to sudden death, can stem from immobilisation, multiple trauma and dehydration.
- It's a striking image of traumatic birth from a monstrous, disembodied womb. Times, Sunday Times
- If it is less traumatic for the patient, these activities are performed after the patient is sedated.
- After many repetitions, the moment comes when the telling of the trauma story no longer arouses quite such intense feeling. Trauma and Recovery
- Epidermolysis bullosa is a group of rare, inherited bullous disorders characterized by blister formation in the epidermal layer secondary to mechanical trauma.
- So the survivors lied and hid their guilty secret and trauma.