trauma

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

Severe emotional or mental distress caused by an experience.

An experience that causes severe anxiety or emotional distress, such as rape or combat.

An event or situation that causes great disruption or suffering.

An abnormal condition of the living body produced by external violence, as distinguished from that produced by poisons, zymotic infection, bad habits, and other less evident causes; traumatism; an accidental wound, as distinguished from one caused by the surgeon's knife in an operation.