Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images;
[syn: posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
posttraumatic stress disorder
n 1: an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic
events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor
guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of
involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images
[syn: posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD]