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Traumatic intracerebral haemorrhage

Traumatic intracerebral haemorrhage (TICH, ICD-11 NA07.1) is brain parenchymal bleeding caused by external head trauma, distinct from spontaneous ICH; it affects younger patients and carries a much better prognosis (67% vs 24% favorable outcomes).

Traumatic keratitis

Traumatic keratitis: corneal inflammation caused by mechanical, chemical, thermal, or UV injury rather than primary infection; classified under BETT, with secondary bacterial or fungal keratitis the main risk, especially after untreated abrasions in agricultural settings.

Traumatic macular hole

Traumatic macular hole (TMH), post-traumatic foveal retinal defect, full-thickness hole after blunt ocular trauma in young men; closes spontaneously in 10-67% within months, vitrectomy achieves 82-96% closure.

Traumatic optic neuropathy

Traumatic optic neuropathy (TON): optic nerve injury from direct or indirect craniofacial trauma causing vision loss. IONTS and Cochrane reviews show no proven benefit of steroids or decompression over observation.

Traumatic orbital haemorrhage

Traumatic orbital haemorrhage (ICD-11 NA06.3), also called traumatic retrobulbar hemorrhage, is bleeding into the orbit after facial trauma, especially orbital floor fractures, causing orbital compartment syndrome; treated emergently by lateral canthotomy and cantholysis.

Traumatic pistol

A traumatic pistol (травматический пистолет) is a handgun firing rubber projectiles from blank-derived cartridges, designed to incapacitate through painful impact without death; such pistols are legal for civilian self-defense in Russia.

Traumatic pneumothorax

Traumatic pneumothorax: air in the pleural space from blunt, penetrating, or iatrogenic chest injury; about 20% of major trauma, diagnosed best by ultrasound or CT, treated by observation or chest tube.

Traumatic purpura

Traumatic purpura is non-blanching purple discoloration from bleeding into the skin caused by physical trauma, including scratching, clothing friction, or rough handling, classified in ICD-11 as code EF31.

Traumatic spondylopathy

Traumatic spondylopathy (ICD-11 FA72.2; Kümmell disease, traumatic spondylosis) is the WHO classification category for injury-caused spinal disorders, coded by spinal region, with ICD-10 counterpart M48.3x.

Traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage

Traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage (TSAH, post-traumatic SAH): bleeding into the subarachnoid space from head trauma, not aneurysm rupture. Occurs in 33-60% of moderate/severe TBI; isolated TSAH in mild TBI rarely needs surgery.

Traumatic subdural haemorrhage

Traumatic subdural haemorrhage (subdural hematoma, SDH): blood between dura and arachnoid after head injury, from torn bridging veins. Acute form is a neurosurgical emergency; CT shows crescentic collection; BTF thresholds 10 mm thickness or 5 mm midline shift.

Traumatika

Traumatika is a 2024 English-language horror film by French filmmaker Pierre Tsigaridis and Maxime Rancon, blending possession, slasher, found-footage, and true-crime elements around a child-preying demon; it premiered at FrightFest 2024 and was released in US theaters by Saban Films on September 12, 2025.

Traumpalast Leonberg Theater

Traumpalast Leonberg Theater: multiplex cinema in Leonberg near Stuttgart, opened 2016, run by Lochmann Filmtheaterbetriebe; holds the Guinness record for the world's largest cinema screen with its 38.8 x 21 m IMAX.

Trautonium

The Trautonium is an early electronic musical instrument invented by German engineer Friedrich Trautwein, first shown publicly in 1930 and regarded as a precursor of the synthesizer.

Travancore (തിരുവിതാംകൂർ)

Travancore (തിരുവിതാംകൂർ) was a princely state in southern Kerala with capital Thiruvananthapuram, founded in modern form by Marthanda Varma (1729–1758), victor of Colachel 1741; merged into Travancore-Cochin in 1949 and Kerala in 1956.

Travancore royal family

Travancore royal family, ruling house of the Kingdom of Travancore (1729–1949), also the Padmanabha Dasa custodians of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple. Matrilineal marumakkathayam succession, Temple Entry Proclamation 1936, merger with Cochin 1949, and 2020 Supreme Court temple ruling distinguish it.

Travel

Travel is the movement of people between places away from their usual environment; overnight stays are measured as tourism, reaching 1.52 billion international arrivals in 2025.

Travel Accounts of Simeon of Poland

The Travel Accounts of Simeon of Poland is the early seventeenth-century travel diary of Simeon Lehatsi, an Armenian deacon born in Zamość in present-day Poland.

Travel agency

A travel agency is a business acting as intermediary between travel suppliers, such as airlines, hotels, and cruise lines, and travelers, earning commissions and fees for booking and advising.

Travel Channel

Travel Channel (TRVL), launched February 1, 1987 by TWA Marketing Services, is a Warner Bros. Discovery pay-TV channel that shifted from travelogue programming to paranormal reality series such as Ghost Adventures after its 2018 rebrand.

Travel class

Travel class, also called passenger class, is a tier of passenger accommodation on public transport in which higher classes offer more space, better service, and higher fares.

Travel cost method

The travel cost method is an economic valuation technique that infers the recreational value of natural sites from the time and money visitors spend traveling to them.

Travel demand model

A travel demand model is a mathematical model that predicts travel in a region by origin, destination, mode, and route, letting planners evaluate infrastructure and policy before it is built.

Travel document

Travel document: an identity document permitting border crossing, including passports and Convention Travel Documents (CTDs) issued to refugees and stateless persons under the 1951 and 1954 Conventions, historically the Nansen passport, now ICAO machine readable.

Travel insurance

Travel insurance, also called visitors travel insurance, is a regulated product covering trip cancellation, baggage loss, and medical costs during travel, typically 4–10% of trip cost.

Travel literature

Travel literature, also called travel writing or the travelogue, is writing about journeys, predominantly factual first-person prose accounts by the author-narrator, spanning antiquity, Hakluyt, colonial-era narratives, and modern digital forms.

Travel Man

Travel Man: 48 Hours in... is a British Channel 4 travel series running 2015 to 2026, hosted by Richard Ayoade (series 1-9) then Joe Lycett, pairing the host with a celebrity guest on a 48-hour city break; axed by Channel 4 in 2026.

Travel requirements for Polish citizens

Travel requirements for Polish citizens: EU and Schengen travel with passport or national ID card, US Visa Waiver Program entry since November 11, 2019 with ESTA, ID-card-only neighboring countries, and Henley passport rankings near the top.

Travel time reliability

Travel time reliability, as defined by the U.S. Department of Transportation, is the certainty and predictability of travel times, quantified by the buffer travelers add to compensate for unexpected delay.

Travel to Europe

Travel to Europe is the European Union's official website for information on entering the Schengen area, home of the EES entry-exit system and ETIAS travel authorization.