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overtriages

overtriages is the plural of overtriage.

overtriages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overtriage.

Meaning of overtriage

Noun

overtriage (countable and uncountable, plural overtriages)

  1. An inaccurately high prehospital triage value assigned to a set of symptoms or an injury, assessing it as being more severe or traumatic than it truly is; the administrative or societal burden caused by such miscalibration, such as wait times in emergency departments.
    • As emergency medicine doctors, we regularly give medical advice to family and close friends when they get sick or are injured and don't know what to do. In a matter of moments, we triage, diagnose, and assemble a logical plan, whatever the issue may be. […] Frankly, it's a service everyone should...2024 January 31, Jesse M. Pines, Robert D. Glatter, “Commentary: Why Everyone Needs Their Own Emergency Medicine Doctor: How Emerging Models Come Close to Making This Reality”, in Medscape...
    Antonyms:
    undertriage

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Questions about overtriages

What is overtriages the plural of?
Overtriages is the plural of overtriage.

Words near overtriages in the dictionary

  1. overtreatment
  2. overtreatments
  3. overtreats
  4. overtriage
  5. overtriaged
  6. overtriages
  7. overtriaging
  8. overtrick
  9. overtricks
  10. overtried
  11. overtries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overtriages (page history and authors); overtriage (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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