combat fatigue

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combat fatigue

Posttraumatic stress disorder resulting from wartime combat or similar experiences. No longer in scientific use. Also called battle fatigue, shell shock, war neurosis.

combat fatigue

(Military) (Psychology) another term for battle fatigue

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combat fatigue - a mental disorder caused by stress of active warfare

battle fatigue, combat neurosis, shell shock

posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD - 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

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