traumatism

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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

The narrowing resulting from foreign body traumatism rarely requires secondary dilatation after the foreign body has been removed.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier

Thrombi are usually divided into those from compression, dilatation, traumatism, and marasmus; in all of which groups an abnormal condition of the endothelium is to be met with.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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

He says that in 543 cases of traumatism of the liver collected by Elder, 65 were caused by cutting or sharp-pointed instruments.

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