Nontraumatic

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Relating to medical situations or injuries that are not caused by physical injury or accidents
2. Describing occurrences that happen without the influence of a traumatic event or physical harm
3. Pertaining to conditions or events that arise without any physical damage or accident involved

Etymology: "Nontraumatic" is a plain formation: the prefix "non-", meaning "not", attached to "traumatic." That adjective comes from "trauma," a Greek word for "wound," which medicine used for physical injury long before psychology adopted it for emotional harm. So the term literally means "not wounded" in the bodily sense. The prefix is the productive part here. English has long attached "non-" to existing words to mark their negation, and medical writers use "nontraumatic" to set a condition apart from injury, for example a brain hemorrhage that arises without any blow to the head, or a bone fracture with no accident behind it.

Antonyms: traumatic