emergency room

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noun

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

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Related Words for emergency room

emergency, er, ICU

Examples from the Web for emergency room

Contemporary Examples of emergency room

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“Carpenter nails,” one emergency-room doctor remarked after extracting them from victim after victim.
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Their sister Kaitlyn was showing what it means to be a Stackpole as an emergency-room nurse at a Manhattan hospital.
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I called to check on my wife, an emergency-room doctor, on duty that night in comparatively quiet Pasadena.
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emergency room in Medicine

emergency room

n.

The section of a health care facility intended to provide rapid treatment for victims of sudden illness or trauma.

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