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Definition of Traumatism

1. n. A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism.

Definition of Traumatism

1. Noun. A physical or mental injury that is the result of trauma ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Traumatism

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Traumatism

1. A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Traumatism

Literary usage of Traumatism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1917)
"... traumatism by falls 46, traumatism in mines 5, traumatism by machines 1, railroad accidents and injuries 22, street car accidents and injuries 4, ..."

2. Mortality Statistics of Insured Wage-earners and Their Families: Experience by Louis Israel Dublin, Edwin William Kopf, George H. Van Buren (1919)
"... 121.4 38.8 traumatism by cutting or piercing instruments traumatism by fall traumatism in mines and quarries (total) — in mines — in quarries traumatism ..."

3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1888)
"ABDOMINAL SECTION FOR traumatism. BY THOMAS SK MORTON, ... THE term " abdominal section for traumatism " is meant to include those cases ..."

4. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1917)
"Paton'- reports successful transplantation of the ureter on account of traumatism which occurred during an operation for cancer of the cervix and resulted ..."

5. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene by John William Ballantyne (1904)
"Theories of the Present ; traumatism and Mechanical Pressure as a Cause of Monstrosities ; Extra-genital Maternal traumatism ; Injuries affecting the ..."

6. Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania at Its (1882)
"traumatism of any part or organ of the body, strictly speaking, ... traumatism can also occur by parts adjacent producing some form of injury to a part or ..."

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