emergency room

[ ih-mur-juhn-see room, room ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

When Joyce Shorter, 66, went to an emergency room in April with a dry cough, doctors suspected pneumonia and sent her home.

From Washington Post

The extension came amid a resurgence of the coronavirus in the country and formed part of a push to preserve hospital capacity for Covid-19 by lowering alcohol-related trauma that can overwhelm emergency rooms.

From Quartz

There have been visits to a psychiatrist, trips to the emergency room and a three-week stay in a psychiatric facility.

From Washington Post

According to one report, an emergency room nurse in San Diego experienced chills, muscle pain, and fatigue six days after receiving his first dose of the vaccine developed by Pfizer.

From Popular-Science

You want to watch the symptoms and if you find that you are having trouble breathing or you have a fever that doesn’t break, then you need to go to the hospital emergency room for further evaluation.

From Washington Post

At Woodhull Hospital, the Bed-Stuy ambulance crew kept doing all they could as they wheeled Ramos into the emergency room.

From The Daily Beast

I turned left, and began the long, painful walk to the emergency room at the University of Virginia medical center.

From The Daily Beast

The doctors and nurses in the emergency room were fast, caring, and highly professional.

From The Daily Beast

In Iowa, a pregnant mother of two fell down a flight of stairs in her home and went to the emergency room.

From The Daily Beast

A patrol car took the bleeding Davis to a nearby emergency room.

From The Daily Beast

Now, at the time the coffin was wheeled into the emergency room, what did Mrs. Kennedy do?

From Project Gutenberg

The casket was brought out from the emergency room, wheeled out through these two folding doors.

From Project Gutenberg

Where was this with reference to the outside door of the hospital, or the emergency room, or something of that sort?

From Project Gutenberg

I lighted her cigarette and she turned around and walked out of that emergency room.

From Project Gutenberg

What is your best estimate as to the time you arrived in the Emergency Room?

From Project Gutenberg

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