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Full Definition of TRAUMA. 1. a: an injury (as a wound) to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent b: a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from severe mental or emotional stress or physical injury. 2.: an agent, force, or mechanism that causes trauma. â trauÂ·matÂ·ic \trÉ-Ëma-tik, troÌ-, trauÌ-\ adjective. She never fully recovered from the trauma of her experiences. 2  an accident victim with severe head trauma. 3  repeated trauma to a knee. 4  The accident victim sustained multiple traumas.
Word Origin and History for trauma. n. 1650s (implied in traumatic), physical wound, from Greek trauma wound, from PIE *tro-, *trau-, from root *tere- to rub, turn (see throw (v.)). Sense of psychic wound, unpleasant experience which causes abnormal stress is implied in traumatic, in psychological jargon 1889.