Path. [a. Gr. τραῦμα wound.] A wound, or external bodily injury in general; also the condition caused by this; traumatism.
1693. trans. Blancard’s Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Trauma,… a wound from an external cause.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Trauma, a Wound.
1895. Pop. Sci. Monthly, July, 386. We have named this psychical trauma, a morbid nervous condition.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 855. Trauma may lead to compression in one or other of the following ways.
