Trauma (medicine)
WordNet
noun
(1) An emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects
(2) Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From δηλητήριος "deleterios", from δηλέομαι, "to hurt, to damage."
Adjective
- harmful or hurtful, to physical, mental or moral health.
- a deleterious chemical
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter - Chapter XV,
- Or might it suffice him, that every wholesome growth should be converted into something deleterious and malignant at his touch?
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter - Chapter XV,
- a deleterious chemical