trauma vs whiplash

whiplash vs trauma

trauma and whiplash both are nouns.

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

As nouns, whiplash is a hyponym of trauma; that is, whiplash 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
whiplash: an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)

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

trauma (noun)	whiplash (noun)
an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects	a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury	an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)

Difference between trauma and whiplash

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