post-traumaticadj.
/ˌpəʊs(t)trɔːˈmatɪk/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˌtrɔˈmædɪk/; see also traumatic adj. and n. Medicine and Psychiatry.
Occurring after injury or psychological shock; relating to or characteristic of a state which follows injury or psychological shock.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > relating to wound
traumatic1656
woundy1660
post-traumatic1872
1872 R. Ludlam Lect. Clin. & Didactic Dis. Women xxx. 518 (heading) In post-traumatic cases.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Oct. 965 The post-traumatic disorders of the cerebro spinal system.
1936 Science 7 Feb. 135/1 Syz described a case of recovery from post-traumatic loss of reproductive memory after treatment with hypnosis and analytic methods.
1957 J. C. Adams Outl. Fractures i. 28 Post-traumatic ossification—sometimes called ‘myositis ossificans’..—is a rare cause of joint stiffness after a fracture or dislocation.
1993 Family Therapy Networker Sept. 45/1 Tom was able to correct his post-traumatic distortions, including the idea that he was a wimp who had failed to stop his cousin from abusing him.
Compounds
post-traumatic stress disorder n. Psychology a condition which can develop following exposure to an extremely stressful situation or series of events outside the usual range of human experience, which may manifest itself in recurrent nightmares or intrusive vivid memories and flashbacks of the traumatic event, and in withdrawal, sleep disturbance, and other symptoms associated with prolonged stress or anxiety. Abbreviated PTSD.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > stress
post-traumatic stress syndrome1960
post-traumatic stress disorder1980
PTSD1982
technostress1982
1980 Diagnostic & Statist. Man. Mental Disorders (Amer. Psychiatric Assoc.) (ed. 3) 234 Symptoms characteristic of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder are often intensified when the individual is exposed to situations or activities that symbolize the original trauma.
1985 Child Abuse & Neglect 9 iii. 329 An examination of symptoms presented by 17 adult women who experienced childhood incest suggests that the long-term effects of incest may be a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
1993 Men's Health Jan. 72/2 All of them agree..on one thing: An enemy that still stalks many veterans is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
2002 N.Y. Times 19 May 35/5 In the days after the Sept. 11 attack..7 percent of residents experienced clinically defined post-traumatic stress disorder.
post-traumatic stress syndrome n. = post-traumatic stress disorder n.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > stress
post-traumatic stress syndrome1960
post-traumatic stress disorder1980
PTSD1982
technostress1982
1960 D. Donald Charles Sumner & Coming of Civil War xii. 336 Modern specialists classify Sumner's illness as ‘post-traumatic syndrome’, in which numerous symptoms without objective causes follow a traumatic experience, such as an accident (physical trauma) in which the patient is not seriously injured.
1989 Spin Oct. 38/1 He was diagnosed by a court psychiatrist as suffering from ‘post-traumatic stress syndrome’ and ‘seeing things, like gangs of people chasing him’.
2002 A. Caulfield Show me Magic viii. 149 Relief that the bastard brothers hadn't done anything bastardly, indeed that the whole family and community had done him proud, let him relax into an ambling form of post-traumatic stress syndrome.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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