emergency room

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

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The people I respect most in the world are emergency-room surgeons who work in war zones.
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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

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