emergency room

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

/ ɪˈmɜr dʒən si ˌrum, ˌrʊm /

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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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When Joyce Shorter, 66, went to an emergency room in April with a dry cough, doctors suspected pneumonia and sent her home.
900,000 infected. Nearly 15,000 dead. How the coronavirus tore through D.C., Maryland and Virginia.|Rebecca Tan, Antonio Olivo, John D. Harden|February 5, 2021|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.
South African wine sales are up nearly everywhere in the pandemic except at home|Brian Browdie|January 29, 2021|Quartz
There have been visits to a psychiatrist, trips to the emergency room and a three-week stay in a psychiatric facility.
Partly hidden by isolation, many of the nation’s schoolchildren struggle with mental health|Donna St. George, Valerie Strauss|January 21, 2021|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.
You can test positive for COVID-19 after a vaccine—but that doesn’t mean the shots don’t work|Kate Baggaley|January 6, 2021|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.
To survive the pandemic, exercise, eat healthy — just like a basketball star|Courtland Milloy|January 5, 2021|Washington Post
Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze|Lizzie Crocker|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.
Exclusive: U.S. Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says|Dave Majumdar|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Investigators will focus on whether the sudden emergency was so extreme that no degree of pilot skill would have helped.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
One specific kind of emergency is at the heart of this, such as when an airplane suffers a loss of stability at night.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Had they been properly trained, they could and should have flown themselves safely out of the emergency.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
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His lordship retired shortly to his study, Hetton and Mr. Haggard betook themselves to the billiard-room.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills

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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.

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