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Crisis vs. Trauma

Crisis and Trauma Definitions

Crisis

A crucial or decisive point or situation, especially a difficult or unstable situation involving an impending change.

Trauma

Serious injury to the body, as from physical violence or an accident
Abdominal trauma.

Crisis

A sudden change in the course of a disease or fever, toward either improvement or deterioration.

Trauma

Severe emotional or mental distress caused by an experience
He experienced trauma for years after his divorce.

Crisis

An emotionally stressful event or traumatic change in a person's life.

Trauma

An experience that causes severe anxiety or emotional distress, such as rape or combat
Memories that persist after a trauma occurs.
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Crisis

A point in a story or drama when a conflict reaches its highest tension and must be resolved.

Trauma

An event or situation that causes great disruption or suffering
The economic trauma of the recession.

Crisis

A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.

Trauma

Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.

Crisis

An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.

Trauma

An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
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Crisis

(medicine) A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.

Trauma

An event that causes great distress.

Crisis

(psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
I'm having a major crisis trying to wallpaper the living room.

Trauma

Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

Crisis

(drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

Trauma

An emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects
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Crisis

The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.
This hour's the very crisis of your fate.
The very times of crisis for the fate of the country.

Crisis

That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.
Till some safe crisis authorize their skill.

Crisis

An unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty;
They went bankrupt during the economic crisis

Crisis

A crucial stage or turning point in the course of something;
After the crisis the patient either dies or gets better

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