emergency room

American  

[ih-mur-juhn-see room, room] / ɪˈmɜr dʒən si ˌrum, ˌrʊm /

noun

• emergency rooms
  plural

1. a hospital area equipped and staffed for the prompt treatment of acute illness, trauma, or other medical emergencies. ER

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• emergency rooms
  plural

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Example Sentences

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emergency room

For nearly all of the first four years of his life, croup repeatedly sent us to the emergency room, often at 3 a.m., as he struggled to breathe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

A patient arrived at a Denver emergency room one night terrified that he was having a heart attack.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

But on social media, influencers and doomsday "preppers" are pushing the necessity of purchasing a $300 kit claimed to help people avoid emergency room visits.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

A new study from USC finds that emergency room visits from patients born outside of the U.S. fell by more than 20% in the first four weeks after arrests escalated in June 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

I’m sitting in the emergency room at University College Hospital.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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