Trauma
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Trauma (plurals: traumata, traumas) can represent:
- Physical trauma, an often serious and body altering physical injury, such as the removal of a limb
- Blunt force trauma, a type of physical trauma caused by impact or other force applied from or with a blunt object
- Penetrating trauma, a type of physical trauma in which the skin or tissues are pierced by an object
- Psychological trauma, an emotional or psychological injury, usually resulting from an extremely stressful or life-threatening situation
- Post-cult trauma, the intense emotional problems that some members of cults and new religious movements experience upon disaffection and disaffiliation
- Advanced Trauma Life Support
- Definitive Surgical Trauma Skills (DSTS)
- Trauma (comics), a character associated with Avengers: The Initiative
- Trauma (comics), a Marvel comics villain associated with The Incredible Hulk and The Pantheon in "the Troyjan War" series
- Trauma (2004 film), a psychological thriller directed by Marc Evans and starring Colin Firth
- Trauma (1993 film), a horror film directed by Dario Argento
- Also see Troma Entertainment, a film company specializing in independent, horror, and exploitation films
- Trauma Studios, which created Desert Combat, the most successful mod of the computer game Battlefield 1942
- Trauma (song) by Ayumi Hamasaki
- Trauma (album) by rapper/producer DJ Quik
- Trauma Records, a record label
- Ordinary Trauma a U.S. rock band
- Trauma (comics), from the Marvel Universe
- Trauma Flintstone, drag performer and actress
The word "trauma" came from Greek τραυμα = "a wound": compare the verb τιτρωσκω (root τρω) = "I injure".