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stairchair

stairchair noun: a foldout gurney used to transport a medical patient up and down stairs.

Noun

stairchair (plural stairchairs)

  1. A foldout gurney used to transport a medical patient up and down stairs.
    • Pick that wheelchair patient up and place her in the stairchair to get down that flight of stairs.

Forms of stairchair

pluralstairchairs

Origin of stairchair

From stair + chair.

Questions about stairchair

What does stairchair mean?
Stairchair means a foldout gurney used to transport a medical patient up and down stairs.
What part of speech is stairchair?
Stairchair is a noun.
What is the plural of stairchair?
The plural of stairchair is stairchairs.

Words near stairchair in the dictionary

  1. staircase wit
  2. staircased
  3. staircaselike
  4. staircases
  5. staircasing
  6. stairchair
  7. stairchairs
  8. stairclimber
  9. stairclimbers
  10. stairclimbing
  11. staired

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