trauma
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
trauma /ˈtrɔːmə, ˈtraʊmə/
▶noun (pl. traumas or traumata /-mətə/)
- 1 a deeply distressing experience.
■ emotional shock following a stressful event.
- 2 Medicine physical injury.
– origin C17: from Gk, lit. ‘wound’.
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