traumatism

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It is essentially a chronic disorder, the affected patch remaining unchanged for months at a time, and then exhibiting aggravation in consequence of accidental exposure to heat or traumatism.

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

There are, however, certain cases in which traumatism meningitis, typhus, or other diseases that affect the brain have undoubtedly evoked criminal tendencies in individuals hitherto normal.

From Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso by Lombroso, Gina

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

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

Paralysis of the right leg and traumatism of the spine had been his, up to that day.

From Lourdes by Benson, Robert Hugh