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* Trauma (medicine), an often serious and body-altering
It's more than just sickness.

trau·ma (tr?m, trou-)
n. pl. trau·mas or trau·ma·ta (-m-t)
1. A serious injury or shock to the body, as from violence or an accident.
2. An emotional wound or shock that creates substantial, lasting damage to the psychological development of a person, often leading to neurosis.
3. An event or situation that causes great distress and disruption.


physical injury, such as the removal of a limb
o Blunt trauma, a type of physical trauma caused by impact or other force applied from or with a blunt object
o Penetrating trauma, a type of physical trauma in which the skin or tissues are pierced by an object
o Blast injury, a type of physical trauma caused by an explosion
* 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
* Trauma surgery, a surgical specialty
* Trauma team, a group of healthcare workers who attend to seriously ill or injured casualties who arrive at a hospital emergency department
* Trauma center, a hospital equipped to provide comprehensive emergency medical services to patients suffering traumatic injuries
* Vicarious traumatization, transformation in the self of a trauma worker or helper that results from empathic engagement with traumatized clients and their reports of traumatic experiences.
* Pediatric trauma, trauma in children
* Geriatric trauma, trauma in the elderly

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sickness

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