trauma

1. Any injury to the body of a living thing. (countable, uncountable) · Near-synonyms: insult (contextually synonymous); see also Thesaurus:injury· mild trauma; major trauma
2. Serious injury, resulting from predation, violence, an accident such as a fall, a vehicle crash, etc. (countable, uncountable) · We're not talking about paper cuts or sprains here — we're talking about trauma.
3. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury. (countable, uncountable) · What these patients eventually realized was that they all had trauma that had fed into their addictions.
4. An event that causes great distress. (countable, uncountable) · The earthquake here 14 years ago was a national trauma that still affects the economy today.

Plural traumas