trauma vs dislocation

dislocation vs trauma

trauma and dislocation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trauma	Yes	No	No	No
dislocation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dislocation is a hyponym of trauma; that is, dislocation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than trauma:

trauma: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
dislocation: a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

Other hyponyms of trauma include brain damage, birth trauma, blast trauma, bleeding, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, blunt trauma, bruise, contusion, bump, burn, electric shock, break, fracture, cryopathy, frostbite, intravasation, penetrating injury, penetrating trauma, pinch, rupture, bite, insect bite, sting, strain, whiplash, whiplash injury, wale, weal, welt, wheal, lesion, wound, pull, twist, wrench.

trauma (noun)	dislocation (noun)
an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects	the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury	an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
	a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

Difference between trauma and dislocation

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