polytrauma

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús

Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.

English poly-

English trauma

English polytrauma

From poly- + trauma.

Noun

polytrauma (countable and uncountable, plural polytraumas)

1. (emergency medicine) The condition of a person who has been subjected to multiple traumatic injuries.

Synonyms

• multiple trauma
• multitrauma

Derived terms

• polytraumatic
• polytraumatized

Translations

multiple traumatic injuries

• French: polytraumatisme (fr) m
• Portuguese: politraumatismo m, politrauma m