posttraumatic in American English
(ˌpousttrəˈmætɪk, -trɔ-, -trau-)
adjectiveoccurring after physical or psychological trauma
Word origin
[1900–05;
post- +
traumatic]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cathode-ray tube, hookup, hormone, hydroplane, internshippost- is a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,”occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital)