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comparative more traumatic, superlative most traumatic
Of, caused by, or causing trauma. quotations examples
It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic symplegia, that's it. This cat has traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.
1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII
"I've seen more patients, but never this many patients with this number of severe injuries," said Dr. Michael Morkin, chief of Renown's emergency department […] . "It was traumatic."
2011 September 18, Don Thompson, Ken Ritter, Reno air race crash scene shows violence of impact, Associated Press
(medicine, dated) Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds. examples
(dated) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary. quotations examples
traumatick Decoctions
1676, Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises
Produced by wounds, especially as opposed to disease or other process. examples
plural traumatics
(dated, medicine) A medicine for wounds; a vulnerary. examples