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Ambulance

//ˈæm.bjə.ləns// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.

    "The NHS is bracing itself for its worst ever winter crisis descending in the next fortnight because of a worsening “flu-nami” that has left hospitals, GP surgeries and ambulances services under intense strain."

  2. 2
    a vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals wordnet
  3. 3
    A mobile field hospital.
  4. 4
    A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary. UK
  5. 5
    Synonym of stretcher, a litter used for medical transport. UK, obsolete
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  1. 6
    Synonym of covered wagon. US, obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To transport by ambulance. transitive

    "Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).

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