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Noun: birth trauma  burth'traw-mu
  1. Physical injury to an infant during the birth process
     
  2. Emotional injury inflicted on an infant by events incident to birth that is alleged to appear in symbolic form in patients with mental illness

Derived forms: birth traumas

Type of: harm, hurt, injury, psychic trauma, trauma

Encyclopedia: Birth trauma