traumatism

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Verrier has collected the results of traumatism during pregnancy, and summarizes 61 cases.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

It would be foolish to deny the necessity of surgery in traumatism, and in abnormal conditions which require mechanical means of adjustment or treatment.

From Nature Cure by Lindlahr, Henry

Other causes given are: Edema and congestion closing the lumen of the appendix, thus preventing drainage; constipation; digestive disturbances; traumatism; eating too freely while in an exhausted condition.

From Appendicitis by Tilden, John Henry

It is a cruel process, but a crampy will in childhood means moral traumatism of some sort in the adult.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

To understand the position of Breuer and Freud we may start from the phenomenon of "nervous shock" produced by physical traumatism, often of a very slight character.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Ellis, Havelock