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View synonyms for paramedic

paramedic

1

[ par-uh-med-ik ]

noun

  1. a person who is trained to assist a physician or to give first aid or other healthcare in the absence of a physician, often as part of a police, rescue, or firefighting squad.


paramedic

2

[ noun par-uh-med-ik, par-uh-med-; adjective par-uh-med-ik ]

noun

  1. Military. a medic in the paratroops.
  2. a doctor who parachutes into remote areas to give medical care.

adjective

  1. of or relating to a paramedic or to paramedics.

paramedic

/ ˌpærəˈmedɪk /

noun

  1. a person, such as a laboratory technician, who supplements the work of the medical profession
  2. a member of an ambulance crew trained in a number of life-saving skills, including infusion and cardiac care
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. of or designating such a person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of paramedic1

An Americanism dating back to 1950–55; para- 1 + medic 1

Origin of paramedic2

An Americanism dating back to 1950–55; para- 3 + medic 1
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Example Sentences

On April 17, Shorter’s family watched from the yard as paramedics wheeled her into the back of an ambulance.

Brian Bregman was a risk-taker from an early age, his brother said, and he became a volunteer firefighter in his teens, then an EMT and eventually a paramedic.

The county health department asked Green’s paramedics to become vaccinators and “we stepped right up to do that,” the chief said.

In other words, the distribution of home addresses was intended to stop cops and paramedics from becoming the sources of an outbreak.

So patients stayed under the care of paramedics for hours at a time, waiting for space to clear up.

Sections of India have transformed since, and the dead paramedic was an example of this change.

There have been 20 rapes in Delhi since Dec. 16, when the paramedic climbed into her last ever bus.

He passed the training and became a paramedic and sniper, with the Middle East as his area of operations.

In the ambulance with him were a police officer, the driver, and a paramedic.

Seeger works at a call center to pay the bills while she studies to be a firefighter paramedic.

I looked where he was pointing, thinking I'd see a cop or an paramedic, but there was no one there.

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