trauma
noun
[ ˈtrɔːmə ]
• a deeply distressing or disturbing experience.
• "a personal trauma like the death of a child"
• physical injury.
• "rupture of the diaphragm caused by blunt trauma"
Similar:
injury,
damage,
hurt,
wound,
wounding,
sore,
bruise,
cut,
laceration,
lesion,
abrasion,
contusion,
Origin:
late 17th century: from Greek, literally ‘wound’.
