Noun: birth trauma burth'traw-mu
- Physical injury to an infant during the birth process
"The difficult delivery resulted in birth trauma to the newborn"
- Emotional injury inflicted on an infant by events incident to birth that is alleged to appear in symbolic form in patients with mental illness
"The psychologist suggested that the patient's anxiety might be related to birth trauma"
Derived forms: birth traumas
Type of: harm, hurt, injury, psychic trauma, trauma
Encyclopedia: Birth trauma