repr. Gr. τραυματο-, combining form of τραῦμα wound, in a few rare scientific terms, chiefly mod.Lat. ǁ Traumatocace [Gr. κάκη badness], traumatic gangrene. ǁ Traumatocomium [Gr. κομεῖν to tend], a hospital for the wounded. Traumatology, the scientific description of wounds. ǁ Traumatonesis [Gr. νῆσις spinning], suture of wounds. ǁ Traumatopnœa [-πνοια breathing], the passage of air through a wound in the thorax during respiration. ǁ Traumatopyra [πῦρ fire, fever-heat], traumatic fever. ǁ Traumatosaprosis [σαπρόειν to putrefy], traumatic gangrene.
1890. Billings, Nat. Med. Dict., *Traumatocace, traumatic gangrene.
1899. Syd. Soc. Lex., Traumatocace. synonym of Hospital gangrene.
1857. Dunglison, Med. Lex., *Traumato-comium.
1887. Oakland Tribune, 9 Nov., 3/1. Dr. Woolsey succeeded in accomplishing a cure which astonished even the medical faculties, and which has since become noted in the records of cephalic *traumatology.
1899. Syd. Soc. Lex., Traumatology.
1890. Billings, Nat. Med. Dict., *Traumatonesis.
1879. St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 245. No *traumatopnœa, no emphysema, no hæmoptysis.
1854–67. C. A. Harris, Dict. Med. Terminol., *Traumatopyra.
1860. Mayne, Expos. Lex., *Traumatosaprosis,… term for putrescence of a wound.
