Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

polytrauma

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English

Syllables: poly-trau-ma
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The condition of a person who has been subjected to multiple traumatic injuries.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English trauma English polytrauma From poly- + trauma.

Usage

Inflected Forms

polytraumas (plural)

Derived Forms

polytraumatic polytraumatized

Synonyms

multiple trauma multitrauma

Questions

What does polytrauma mean?: The condition of a person who has been subjected to multiple traumatic injuries.
Where does polytrauma come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English trauma English polytrauma From poly- + trauma.

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