traumatism
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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 Havelock Ellis
Acute bursitis and thecitis is of frequent occurrence in horses because of direct injury from contusion, punctures and other forms of traumatism.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
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 Jackson Gregory
He furthermore points out, as did Aristotle, that epilepsy produced in the ancestor by traumatism and other physical causes may be inherited by the child.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
Intrauterine fractures are occasionally seen, but are generally the results of traumatism or of some extraordinary muscular efforts on the part of the mother.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
