Dictionary entry overview: What does traumatic mean? â¢ TRAUMATIC (adjective) The adjective TRAUMATIC has 2 senses: 1. of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body 2. psychologically painful Familiarity information: TRAUMATIC used as an adjective is rare.
In 1957, Rachel Carson got breast cancer, probably because of the pesticide she was studying and trying to stop. She died of a heart attack at the age of 57. Their was a wood she had wanted to buy when she was younger. She had not completed her dream to buy it, but she did stop DDT and the other pesticies,
As the English, French, and Spanish explorers came to North America, they brought tremendous changes to American Indian tribes. Europeans carried a hidden enemy to the Indians: new diseases. Native peoples of America had no immunity to the diseases that European explorers and colonists brought with them. Diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles, and even chicken pox proved deadly to American Indians. Europeans were used to these diseases, but Indian people had no resistance to them.