undertriages
undertriages is the plural of undertriage.
undertriages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of undertriage.
Meaning of undertriage
Noun
undertriage (countable and uncountable, plural undertriages)
- An inaccurately low prehospital triage value assigned to a set of symptoms or an injury, assessing it as being less severe or traumatic than it truly is; the administrative or societal burden caused by such miscalibration, such as strokes or heart attacks not recognized and treated quickly enough.
- However, our prior study on undertriage of major trauma patients indicated that a significant proportion of trauma patients with an ISS = 75 survived.2015 August 1, “Trauma with Injury Severity Score of 75: Are These Unsurvivable Injuries?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
- Antonyms:
- overtriage
Questions about undertriages
- What is undertriages the plural of?
- Undertriages is the plural of undertriage.
Words near undertriages in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: undertriages (page history and authors); undertriage (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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