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EMT

EMT is the initialism of emergency medical technician.

EMT is the initialism of epithelial-mesenchymal transition.

EMT is the initialism of electrical metal tubing.

Meaning of emergency medical technician

Noun

emergency medical technician (plural emergency medical technicians, abbreviation EMT)

  1. (emergency medical services) An ambulance worker who works in patient stabilization and emergency transport. In some services, an EMT is a trainee who is not a paramedic; in other services, a paramedic is a senior-level EMT, sometimes called an EMT-P in contrast with an EMT-I, etc.
    • Near-synonym: paramedic (sometimes broadly synonymous)
    Synonyms:
    paramedic[Appendix:Glossary

Synonyms of EMT

  • paramedic[Appendix:Glossary

Forms of EMT

pluralEMTs

Words formed from EMT

Questions about EMT

What is EMT the initialism of?
EMT is the initialism of emergency medical technician.

Words near EMT in the dictionary

  1. Emslie
  2. Emson
  3. Emswiler
  4. Emswilers
  5. Emsworth
  6. EMT
  7. EMT-B
  8. EMT-Bs
  9. EMT-I
  10. EMT-Is
  11. EMT-P

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Adapted from Wiktionary: EMT (page history and authors); emergency medical technician (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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