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Two meanings, one physical and one emotional. A physical trauma is an injury, i.e., a "blunt force trauma to the head" might be caused by a bat to the head. There are mental traumas, such as being in war, the stress of which can cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the trauma being that one had to kill and watch friends be killed or terribly injured.

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