traumatism

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Accidental causes are traumatism and an adjacent inflammation of the pleura.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)

And he grew technical, spoke of blood pressures taken, of traumatism superinducing prolonged coma, of this and that which made no impression on the banker.

From The Bells of San Juan by Gregory, Jackson

They began by regarding the most typical hysteria as really a psychic traumatism; that is to say, that it starts in a lesion, or rather in repeated lesions, of the emotional organism.

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

This injury was caused by a blow or traumatism.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)

When in older patients the deformity arises either from traumatism or occupation, the only treatment is that of operation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various