Medicine & BodyGreek → English
Trauma
A serious injury, physical or psychological.
The Greek roots
τραῦμα
traûma
wound
Literally: “a wound”
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The story of the word
Simply the Greek word for a wound; medicine and psychology both borrowed it for injury of body and mind.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
The trauma unit stabilised her within minutes.