post-traumatic stress disorder Definition
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post-traumatic stress disorder
post-traumatic stress syndrome
noun
- 1. medicine.psychol.
- A psychological disorder associated with an extremely traumatic event, such as military combat, rape or torture, and characterized by symptoms such as withdrawal, anxiety, nightmares, etc, which may not appear until many months after the event.
