traumatic
UK /tɹɔːˈmætɪk/ · US /tɹɔˈmætɪk/ adjective, noun
Forms traumatics
- adjective Of, caused by, or causing trauma.
- adjective (medicine, dated) Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.
- adjective (dated) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
- adjective Produced by wounds, especially as opposed to disease or other process. “traumatic tetanus; traumatic brain injury”
- noun (dated, medicine) A medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.
Antonyms
Etymology
From the Latin traumaticus, from the Ancient Greek τραυματικός (traumatikós), from τραῦμα (traûma). By surface analysis, trauma + -tic.
From the Latin [medicāmentum] traumaticum, from traumaticus.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective A traumatic medicine.
Etymology [L. traumaticus, Gr. traumatique.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “traumatic”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details