a. and sb. [ad. late L. traumatic-us, ad. Gr. τραυματικός of or pertaining to a wound or wounds, f. τραῦμα, -ματ- wound. Cf. F. traumatique (16th c. in Godef., Compl.).]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or caused by a wound, abrasion, or external injury, as traumatic erysipelas, insanity, idiocy; † formerly, used for the cure of wounds, vulnerary, as a traumatic balsam, herb.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Traumatick, belonging to wounds or to the cure of wounds, vulnerary.
1676. Wiseman, Chirurg. Treat., I. iv. 29. Nature … was assisted the while by Traumatick Decoctions, &c. as in such cases is usual.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 163/1. Inflammation traumatic or idiopathic.
1869. G. Lawson, Dis. Eye (1874), 152. Traumatic Cataract, or cataract the result of an injury to the eye.
1913. Times, 11 Aug., 13/3. Prof. V. Soubbotitch … presented his military experiences of traumatic aneurysms.
† B. sb. A vulnerary agent or remedy. Obs.
1683. Salmon, Doron Med., I. 18. A very good Traumatick and Vulnerary. Ibid. (1694), Bate’s Dispens. (1713), 496/2. An excellent traumatick and vulnerary.
Hence Traumatically adv., in connection with a wound or abrasion.
1866. A. Flint, Princ. Med. (1880), 143. Chronic pleuritis may be produced traumatically.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 771. It [tonsillitis] may occur traumatically.
