Lexic.us

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Definition of Ambulances

1. ambulance [n] - See also: ambulance

Medical Definition of Ambulances

1. A vehicle equipped for transporting patients in need of emergency care. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambulances

Literary usage of Ambulances

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1906)
"Whereas the equipment of military hospitals may be appropriated by an enemy for the purpose of tending the wounded generally, the equipment of ambulances ..."

2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1857)
"The ambulances, temporary hospitals, and convalescent depots are intended, ... There are ambulances for the infantry, and others for cavalry all connected ..."

3. Draft Outlines of an International Code by David Dudley Field (1872)
"Persons attached to ambulances and hospitals. 788. Hospital supplies. ... Neutrality of ambulances and hospitals. 786. ambulances and hospitals are to be ..."

4. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1857)
"The ambulances, temporary hospitals, and convalescent depots are intended, ... There are ambulances for the infantry, and others for cavalry all connected ..."

5. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1877)
"Of course, the field hospitals are emptied as soon »s possible, in order to allow the personnel and materiel of the ambulances to rejoin their corps. ..."

6. Conflict in the Soviet Union: Black January in Azerbaidzhan by Robert Kushen (1991)
"Attacks on Doctors, ambulances and Hospitals Among the most heinous violations of human rights during the Baku incursion were the numerous attacks on ..."

7. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"to which battery of artillery it should be permanently attached ; to the headquarters of each army corps two such ambulances ; and to each division train of ..."

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