traumatic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: traumatic	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for traumatic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
traumatic adj of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body psychologically painful;"few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child";
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Traumatic \Traumat"ic\, a. [L. traumaticus, Gr. [?], from [?], [?], a wound: cf. F. traumatique.] (Med.) (a) Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to wounds. --Coxe. (b) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary. --Wiseman. (c) Produced by wounds; as, traumatic* tetanus. -- n. A traumatic medicine.