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stretcher case

stretcher case noun: an injured person who needs to be carried on a stretcher.

Noun

stretcher case (plural stretcher cases)

  1. An injured person who needs to be carried on a stretcher.
    • We filled two cars with stretcher cases as they came up from the cellar of the post and as I shut the door of the second car and fastened it I felt the rain on my face turn to snow.1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 180
    • Each of the trains is fully equipped with cars for travelling staffs of nurses and doctors, kitchens, and wards for stretcher cases, sitting-up and mental cases.1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, pages 315, 317

Forms of stretcher case

pluralstretcher cases

Questions about stretcher case

What does stretcher case mean?
Stretcher case means an injured person who needs to be carried on a stretcher.
What part of speech is stretcher case?
Stretcher case is a noun.
What is the plural of stretcher case?
The plural of stretcher case is stretcher cases.

Words near stretcher case in the dictionary

  1. stretchedness
  2. stretchedst
  3. stretcher
  4. stretcher bond
  5. stretcher bonds
  6. stretcher case
  7. stretcher cases
  8. stretcher match
  9. stretcher matches
  10. stretcher-bearer
  11. stretcher-bearers

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