| traumatic neurosis | Any functional nervous disorder following an accident or injury. See: posttraumatic stress disorder. Synonym: accident neurosis, posttraumatic neurosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| traumatic occlusion | A malocclusion capable of producing injury to the teeth and/or associated structures. Synonym: traumatic occlusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| traumatic orchitis | Simple inflammation of the testis caused by mechanical injury. (05 Mar 2000) |
| traumatic pneumonia | Inflammation of the lungs following a severe blow on or compression of the chest, or following a wound of the lung itself. Synonym: traumatic pneumonia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| traumatic progressive encephalopathy | A chronic progressive brain damage resulting from multiple brain injuries, e.g., dementia pugilistica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| traumatic psychosis | A psychosis resulting from physical injury or emotional shock. Compare: posttraumatic psychosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| traumatic reticuloperitonitis | A condition of cattle, caused by the penetration of the stomach wall, usually the reticulum, by any kind of sharp object (usually metallic) which has been swallowed. Synonym: hardware disease, traumatic reticuloperitonitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| traumatic retinopathy | Transient traumatic retinal angiopathy due to a sudden rise in venous pressure, as in compression of the body from seat belt injury; ocular fundi show large white patches associated with the retinal veins about the disk or macula, haemorrhages, and retinal oedema; thought to be due to fat embolism from bone marrow. Synonym: Purtscher's disease, transient retinopathy, traumatic retinopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| traumatic tetanus | Tetanus following infection of a wound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frenkel's anterior ocular traumatic syndrome | <syndrome> An obsolete term for traumatic iridoplegia, which consists of mydriasis, hyphema, small iris tears near the pupil, discrete punctate opacities of the lens, and occasionally iridodialysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| abiotic stress | <botany> Nonliving environmental factors (such as drought, extreme cold or heat, high winds) that can have harmful effects on plants. (06 May 1997) |
| acute stress reaction | A sudden bout of anxiety that is often accompanied by the features of hyperventilation (tingling around mouth and in fingertips, rapid breathing, faintness or fainting). (27 Sep 1997) |
| biotic stress | <biology> Living organisms which can harm plants, such as viruses, fungi, bacteria, and harmful insects. (19 Jan 1998) |
| magnetic stress tensor | <radiobiology> A second-rank tensor, proportional to the dyadic product of the magnetic field (B) with itself. The divergence of the magnetic stress tensor gives that part of the force which a magnetic field exerts on a unit volume of conducting fluid due to the curvature of the magnetic field lines. (09 Oct 1997) |
| contraction stress test | A test used to evaluate foetal well-being by inducing contractions and analyzing the foetal heart rate response. (05 Mar 2000) |