Usually means: Deep emotional wound from distress.
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  1. trauma: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. trauma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. trauma: Collins English Dictionary
  4. trauma: Vocabulary.com
  5. Trauma, trauma: Wordnik
  6. trauma: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. trauma: Wiktionary
  8. trauma: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. trauma: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. trauma: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. trauma: Dictionary.com
  12. trauma: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  14. trauma: Rhymezone
  15. Trauma (nt), trauma, trauma, trauma, trauma (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
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  17. trauma: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  19. trauma: Online Etymology Dictionary

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  1. -trauma, trauma-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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  1. trauma: Legal dictionary
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  1. trauma: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Trauma: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Trauma: Diabetes Dictionary
  4. Trauma: Merck Manuals
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  8. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  9. trauma: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. TRAUMA: Vocabulary of Loss: Suicide, Grief, and Ethics
  11. -trauma, trauma: Medical dictionary
  12. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  13. Trauma: Drug Medical Dictionary
  14. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Trauma: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. trauma, the trauma: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
noun:  An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
noun:  An event that causes great distress.

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