birth trauma

1. 1.

   physical injury to an infant during the birth process

   Broaderinjury
2. 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

   Broadertrauma

Questions about birth trauma

What does birth trauma mean?

birth trauma means "physical injury to an infant during the birth process". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is birth trauma a common word?

birth trauma is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.