trauma vs whiplash injury

whiplash injury vs trauma

trauma and whiplash injury both are nouns.

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

As nouns, whiplash injury is a hyponym of trauma; that is, whiplash injury 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 injury: 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, wale, weal, welt, wheal, lesion, wound, pull, twist, wrench.

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

Difference between trauma and whiplash injury

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