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

She set out on the 13-minute walk to the emergency room of UF Health Jacksonville, the hospital where she had given birth to her son.

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Now, when he gets painful kidney stones, Gutierrez avoids the overcrowded and chaotic emergency room and heads to Sollis’ serene facility on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

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She was found on a beach in Israel late Nov. 2 and spent the night in the emergency room, according to the documents.

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On a Friday afternoon in early November, he felt chest pains and went to an emergency room.

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“Up until now, everything’s been reactive. Somebody has a symptom, somebody shows up in the emergency room and they wind up putting a patch on them.”

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