Definition of "traumatology" []

• The branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of serious wounds, injuries, and disabilities. (noun)

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• "Sir Keith Porter, the UK's only professor of clinical traumatology and consultant at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, said: Surgery always advances in times of war … Blood loss, wound infection and damage control – which means do the least necessary early in order to keep the patient alive or to save a limb."