Definition of Traumatology

1. Noun. The branch of medicine that deals with the surgical repair of injuries and wounds arising from accidents.

Exact synonyms: Accident Surgery
Generic synonyms: Medical Specialty, Medicine

Definition of Traumatology

1. Noun. (medicine psychology) A branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of trauma. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Traumatology

1. The branch of surgery which deals with wounds and disability from injuries. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Traumatology

traumatise
traumatised
traumatises
traumatising
traumatism
traumatisms
traumatization
traumatizations
traumatize
traumatized
traumatizes
traumatizing
traumato-
traumatogenic occlusion
traumatol
traumatology (current term)
traumatonesis
traumatopathy
traumatophobia
traumatopnea
traumatopyra
traumatosepsis
traumatotherapy
traunce
traunch
traunt
traunted
traunter
traunters
traunting

Literary usage of Traumatology

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

1. Landmine Monitor Report 2000: Toward a Mine-Free World by International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, International Campaign to Ban Landmines (2000)
"Information about civilians with wounds of the extremities is relatively more accessible because they are brought to Yerevan to the Center of traumatology, ..."

2. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"... SICOT Jubilee Prize of the International Society of Orthopaedics and traumatology (1978). Prof. AK Maiti of the Department of Bio-Chemistry and ..."

3. War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina by Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.), Helsinki Watch, Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S., Ivana Nizich (1993)
"... nine dead and seventy seriously wounded civilians had been received by the traumatology unit that day. One victim was a sixteen-year-old girl named ..."

4. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1921)
"By securing the mechanical sterilization of the wound in this prophylactic way the surgeon has eliminated from the traumatology of the bloodvessels some of ..."

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