What's the difference between hurtful and traumatic?

Hurtful


Definition:

  • (a.) Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
  • (2) Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection.
  • (3) Israel’s president has told his Mexican counterpart that he was “sorry for the hurt” over a tweet in which the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared to praise Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall on the US-Mexican border.
  • (4) No one was seriously hurt but the road was closed north and south at 2.15am, and police have asked drivers to find alternatives.
  • (5) My unreliable BlackBerry was hurting business," she said.
  • (6) I watched as she made the briefest eye contact with me on their way back, the flicker of hurt and sadness in her eyes reflecting mine, before the shutters came down.
  • (7) Target’s data breach in 2013 exposed details of as many as 40m credit and debit card accounts and hurt its holiday sales that year.
  • (8) In the latest survey to suggest that struggles in the eurozone and geopolitical tensions are hurting exporters, the CBI said manufacturing was the weakest part of the economy in the three months to October.
  • (9) Photograph: Guardian Environmental activists now argue that if Obama fails to recognise that anger and block the pipeline, he could hurt his chances in the 2012 elections.
  • (10) Here's what you need to know Read more Speaking to Guardian Australia ahead of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, Krugman, a renowned columnist at the New York Times , predicted the slowing Chinese economy would hurt Australia, but said the country should not get “too hysterical” about it.
  • (11) New employment data today suggested that hurricane Sandy is hurting already tenuous US job growth.
  • (12) It hurts indigenous Irish businesses whose main trade links are with the UK.
  • (13) A long spell of ultra-low interest rates has not driven a rise in inequality in the UK, the deputy governor of the Bank of England has said, rebuffing criticism that central bank policy had hurt some households.
  • (14) During interviews, married couples experiencing infertility reported emotional reactions such as sadness, depression, anger, confusion, desperation, hurt, embarrassment, and humiliation.
  • (15) A rocket also caused the first serious Israeli casualty – one of eight people hurt when a fuel tanker was hit at a service station in Ashdod, 20 miles north of Gaza.
  • (16) Giving power to people – that’s at the heart of what I’m trying to do.” He said the Liberal Democrats had made “serious mistakes” which had hurt them in Thursday’s election, during which the party won eight seats, compared with 57 in 2010.
  • (17) There was too much hurt and uncontrolled anger when she was in the superior position with the kind of man who could not meet her dependency needs.
  • (18) Kashyap also told MPs about that weakness in banks across the EU could hurt major players in the UK.
  • (19) Brown runs four yards, but on that play Stanley Havill gets hurt.
  • (20) Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Tim Lang , professor of food policy at London's City University, said there were deeper structural issues to global food market price rises that politicians were not taking seriously and which were hurting the poor disproportionately.

Traumatic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to wounds.
  • (a.) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
  • (a.) Produced by wounds; as, traumatic tetanus.
  • (n.) A traumatic medicine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Angiopathic and traumatic influences conditioned by metabolism, apart from local peculiarities are taken into consideration.
  • (2) Factors associated with higher incidence of rejection included loose sutures, traumatic wound dehiscence, and grafts larger than 8.5 mm.
  • (3) Splenectomy had been performed for traumatic, hematologic or immunologic reasons.
  • (4) Change is traumatic for any organisation and the FSA is no different.
  • (5) The authors describe a new technique for evaluating traumatic conditions to the elbow: the radial head-capitellum view.
  • (6) A series of 170 patients with non-traumatic coma seen over a 16-month period is reported.
  • (7) Both the use of analgesics and the frequency of headache showed a significant increase for patients with post-traumatic headache when compared with a "control group" of 41 patients with unchanged headache and when compared with all patients with headache before the trauma.
  • (8) The authors are of the opinion that the processes occurring in the neighbourhood of the traumatic skin wound can be influenced and that regeneration can be regulated.
  • (9) A traumatic factor in the aetiology of the AVM was also discussed, since the patient had had two preceding episodes of traffic accidents with cranial and lumbar injury.
  • (10) Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis was diagnosed in 111 children, chronic hematogenous osteomyelitis in 11 children, traumatic and postoperative osteomyelitis in 10 children.
  • (11) Since alterations in insulin responsiveness, especially insulin resistance, have been related to the metabolic sequelae of shock, the present study evaluated insulin responsiveness in traumatic shock.
  • (12) In the years 1971 to 1973 the therapeutic effect of Trasylol (aprotinin isolated from bovine organs) in the treatment of the traumatic shock was investigated in a controlled field study at 31 hospitals in northern Germany.
  • (13) Five (15%) had a history of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) which coincided with the pain onset.
  • (14) In contrast, the control traumatic cases showed an incomplete recovery and a persistent residual neurological deficit.
  • (15) A new centrifugal pump (Sarns), originally designed for ventricular assist, was successfully used in two patients during repair of traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta.
  • (16) Exacerbation of inflammation due to repeated traumatization of the oesophagus wall was accompanied by proliferation of the epithelial layers.
  • (17) The author maintains that the osteoma of the brachial muscle as well as post-traumatic periarticular calcifications, occur in the muscle mass or in the tendon that prolongs it, or in the articular capsule, as a result of surgical treament and post-operative immobilization, and only exceptionally following orthopaedic treatment of traumatic lesions.
  • (18) Four hours after infusion, the animals displayed a clinical and pathological pattern which closely resembled post-traumatic acute respiratory distress syndrome, including hypoxia, hypocarbia, thrombocytopenia, increased pulmonary capillary permeability to albumin, interstitial edema, hypertrophy of alveolar lining cells, and intra-alveolar hemorrhage.
  • (19) The degree of post-traumatic osteoarthritis was directly related to the duration of follow-up.
  • (20) Aetiological factors were: chronic alcoholism (31%), vascular diseases (17%), tumours (12%), traumatic brain lesions (8,5%), toxic metabolic lesions (6%) and other factors (6%).