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Trauma


Trauma (''plurals:'' '''traumata''', '''traumas''') can represent:

Psychological and Medical


- 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)

In comics


- Trauma (comics), a character associated with ''Avengers: The Initiative'' in the Marvel Universe

Film


- 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

Games


- Trauma Studios, which created ''Desert Combat'', the most successful mod of the computer game ''Battlefield 1942''

Music


- The Human Equation|Day Twelve: Trauma (song), by Ayreon
- Trauma (song) by Ayumi Hamasaki
- Trauma (album) by rapper/producer DJ Quik
- Trauma Records, a record label
- Trauma (band), a Polish Deathmetal band
- Trauma (band), an American Heavy-metal band

People


- Trauma Flintstone, drag performer and actress

Sports Team


- Baltimore Trauma, professional paintball team from North Carolina

Etymology

The word "trauma" came from Greek τραυμα = "a wound": compare the verb τιτρωσκω (root (linguistics)|root τρω) = "I injure".

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