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Definition of Emergencies
1. emergency [n] - See also: emergency
Medical Definition of Emergencies
1. Situations or conditions having a high probability of disabling or immediately life-threatening consequences or requiring first aid or other immediate intervention. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emergencies
Literary usage of Emergencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Nursing: A Text-book for Nurses by Anna Caroline Maxwell, Amy Elizabeth Pope (1914)
"In the hospital (barring extreme cases, such as hemorrhage) there is not much
for the nurse to do in emergencies except to notify the doctor, ..."
2. Biosafety in the Laboratory: Prudent Practices for the Handling and Disposal by National Research Council (U. S.) (1989)
"E. emergencies 1. Preparation and General Procedures a. ... It should be reinforced
by drills and simulated emergencies. Plans should include liaison with ..."
3. Pye's Surgical Handicraft: A Manual of Surgical Manipulations, Minor Surgery by Walter Pye (1893)
"... emergencies, which had not been previously dealt with under the sections upon
fracture or haemorrhage, and there remains now the larger class of general ..."
4. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"I have asked him to speak to you to-day, as he met me as somewhat of an emergency,
on " Meeting emergencies." MEETING emergencies IN THE INDIAN SERVICE ..."
5. Report by Indians Rights Association (1908)
"I have asked him to speak to you to-day, as he met me as somewhat of an emergency,
on " Meeting emergencies." MEETING emergencies IN THE INDIAN SERVICE ..."
6. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, United States Congress. Senate (1915)
"540) entitled "An act making appropriations for deficiencies of previous years,
providing for emergencies for the current fiscal year, ..."
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