ambulance
a specially equipped motor vehicle, airplane, ship, etc., for carrying sick or injured people, usually to a hospital.
(formerly) a field hospital.
Origin of ambulance
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Other pervasive problems included everything from bedbugs and ceiling leaks in hospital buildings, to unpaid gas bills for company ambulances to shortages of medical supplies.
A Hospital Chain Said Our Article Was Inaccurate. It’s Not. | by Peter Elkind | October 12, 2020 | ProPublicaThe plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, near Kazakhstan, where an ambulance waited to take him to a local hospital.
Top chemical weapons watchdog group confirms Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent | Alex Ward | October 7, 2020 | VoxA short time later she posted a photo of the inside of an ambulance with the message, “The moment that I feared the most has arrived.”
Ruby Corado released from hospital following COVID symptoms | Lou Chibbaro Jr. | October 1, 2020 | Washington BladeIt also freed up enough cash to help the network purchase businesses that owned hospices, home health services, ambulances and a 90-bed rural hospital.
He Wanted to Fix Rural America’s Broken Nursing Homes. Now, Taxpayers May Be on the Hook for $76 Million. | by Max Blau for Georgia Health News | September 22, 2020 | ProPublicaThe ambulance and emergency room bills were just over $12,000.
That is a fact recorded by the doctor in charge of the ambulance at the inquest.
Harry’s Daddy, and Diana’s ‘Murder’: Royal Rumors In a New Play | Tom Sykes | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTBy the time the ambulance arrived, over 10 minutes later, it was too late—Mills died soon after arriving at the hospital.
At Woodhull Hospital, the Bed-Stuy ambulance crew kept doing all they could as they wheeled Ramos into the emergency room.
'Please Don't Die!': The Frantic Battle to Save Murdered Cops | Michael Daly | December 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRamos was still showing no signs of life when they got him on a backboard and into the ambulance.
'Please Don't Die!': The Frantic Battle to Save Murdered Cops | Michael Daly | December 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe then went back to his volunteer corps, which had formed when they did not yet have an ambulance.
'Please Don't Die!': The Frantic Battle to Save Murdered Cops | Michael Daly | December 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBehind that came an army ambulance followed by an electric truck.
The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch | Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) PorterI have got him away in a motor ambulance in the hopes that an operation may save his life.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton LaurieAs it was long range, the bullet remained in his calf, and he went off in an ambulance to have it dug out.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton LaurieFor about two hours there was hot firing, and every now and then there was a little work for our ambulance people, but not much.
The Relief of Mafeking | Filson YoungBut now the ambulance was slowly returning from the place whither it had been sent to receive the dead bodies.
The Relief of Mafeking | Filson Young
British Dictionary definitions for ambulance
/ (ˈæmbjʊləns) /
a motor vehicle designed to carry sick or injured people
Origin of ambulance
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