trauma
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I am an emergency physician at a busy trauma center, where patients now commonly check laboratory and radiology results via their patient portals before I have a chance to discuss those results with them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Women are more prone to infections and sepsis, and can suffer from severe and ongoing pain, as well having to deal with psychological trauma, anxiety and depression.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Does she care about Leo, or does she want to keep probing that pain and that trauma?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Helmets became a matter of keen public interest 20 years ago, after researchers linked football-related head trauma with the brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
"I've realized what's happening. I'm having a stress-related breakdown. Or at least a minor psychotic episode brought on by the trauma of last night's attack."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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There were hardships and traumas, periods of institutionalization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Brooke Warner, publisher of She Writes Press and co-host of the Memoir Nation podcast, says this has put pressure on memoirists to push the envelope and find ever-more-shocking traumas to mine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
They had grandparents for the kids to stay with, so they did not go—as tens of thousands do each year—into state custody, with the many attendant traumas that entails.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The repercussions of this method still reverberate through Panettiere’s life today, with the actress musing: “I’ve often wondered whether—unintentionally—I’ve brought on my traumas because I’m wired to think they’re good for me.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
But he was still recovering from the trauma of the war as well as some serious traumas that preceded his military experience.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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The principal causes of primary keratitis are traumata and infection from the conjunctiva.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
He received several head traumata and suffered from enuresis in his early life.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
We shall refer later on to those other exactly similar cases of cyclical depression which can nevertheless easily be traced back to mental traumata.
From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud
Absorption takes place from the inner surface of the uterus or from traumata in the genital canal.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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