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medical emergency

medical emergency noun: a situation where a person's health is in immediate danger due to an acute injury or illness.

Noun

medical emergency (plural medical emergencies)

  1. A situation where a person's health is in immediate danger due to an acute injury or illness.
    • Other times, I arrive at work to find a helicopter blocking my entry to the parking lot. We are so far from a hospital that can treat children, serious medical emergencies have to be airlifted out.2019 May 15, Adrian Rennix, “Waiting for the Holy Infant of Atocha”, in Current Affairs

Forms of medical emergency

pluralmedical emergencies

Questions about medical emergency

What does medical emergency mean?
Medical emergency means a situation where a person's health is in immediate danger due to an acute injury or illness.
What part of speech is medical emergency?
Medical emergency is a noun.
What is the plural of medical emergency?
The plural of medical emergency is medical emergencies.

Words near medical emergency in the dictionary

  1. medical desert
  2. medical deserts
  3. medical doctor
  4. medical doctors
  5. medical emergencies
  6. medical emergency
  7. medical ethics
  8. medical examiner
  9. medical examiners
  10. medical finger
  11. medical fingers

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