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Definition: PTSD |
PTSDNoun1. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PTSD | English | Post traumatic stress disorder | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: PTSDSynonym: posttraumatic stress disorder (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "PTSD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "PTSD" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "PTSD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | posttraumatisk stressforstyrrelse (post-traumatic stress disorder), posttraumatic stress-disorder (post-traumatic stress disorder). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | posttraumatische stress-stoornis (post-traumatic stress disorder). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | traumaperäinen stressireaktio (post-traumatic stress disorder), traumaattinen neuroosi (post-traumatic stress disorder). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | trouble de stress post-traumatique. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | posttraumatische Belastungsstörung (post-traumatic stress disorder). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | διαταραχή μετατραυματικής καταπόνησης (post-traumatic stress disorder). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | stress post-traumatico (post-traumatic stress disorder), sindrome post-traumatica (post-traumatic stress disorder), disturbo da stress post-traumatico (post-traumatic stress disorder). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ptsday trastorno por estrés postraumático (post-traumatic stress disorder). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "d-p-s-t" | |
+2 letters: adapts, adepts, adopts, depots, depths, despot, dustup, pasted, posted, spited, stiped, stoped, stupid. | |
+3 letters: bedpost, dampest, dashpot, deepest, departs, depicts, deports, deposit, deputes, desktop, despite, despots, dipnets, discept, dispart, disport, dispute, disrupt, dopants, dopiest, dustpan, dustups, heptads, outsped, pandits, pedants, pentads, peptids, pestled, petards, plastid, podesta, podites, posited, postdoc, pundits, redtops, sandpit, sopited, spathed, spatted, spirted, spitted, sported, spotted, spouted, spurted, stamped, standup, stapled, steeped, stepped, stipend, stomped, stooped, stopped, striped, stumped, stupids, topside, torpids, tripods, updarts, updates, upstand, upstood. | |
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