gurney

[gur-nee]

noun

plural

gurneys 

1. a flat, padded table or stretcher with legs and wheels, for transporting patients or bodies.

Gurney

¹

/ ˈɡɜːnɪ /

noun

1. Ivor ( Bertie ). 1890–1937, British poet and composer, noted esp for his songs and his poems of World War I

gurney

²

/ ˈɡɜːnɪ /

noun

1. a wheeled stretcher for transporting hospital patients

Word History and Origins

Origin of gurney¹

First recorded in 1935–40; of uncertain origin; perhaps after J. Theodore Gurney, American inventor, who invented a two-wheeled horse-drawn cab in 1883

Word History and Origins

Origin of gurney¹

C20: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

As the entire set catches fire, she's wheeled out on a hospital gurney, surrounded by dancers in red plague doctors costumes, who operate on her lifeless body.

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He was kept on a gurney in a hallway for days without treatment.

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His phone rings during a moment of silence for a deceased patient and he injures his finger moving a patient off a gurney.

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Once Matilde was placed on a gurney and moved into an ambulance, she was taken three miles to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center.

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They see and treat heart attacks and strokes, or don’t see them, learning that sometimes the people they think are fine to leave waiting on gurneys aren’t.

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