Definition of Emergency room

1. Noun. A room in a hospital or clinic staffed and equipped to provide emergency care to persons requiring immediate medical treatment.

Exact synonyms: Er
Generic synonyms: Hospital Room

Definition of Emergency room

1. Noun. A department of a hospital primarily used for the treatment of the most serious, often life-threatening conditions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Emergency Room

emergency locator transmitter
emergency locator transmitters
emergency medical service
emergency medical service communication systems
emergency medical services
emergency medical technician
emergency medical technicians
emergency medicine
emergency nursing
emergency physician
emergency position indicating radio beacon
emergency position indicating radio beacons
emergency procedure
emergency response
emergency responses
emergency room (current term)
emergency rooms
emergency service
emergency services
emergency supplies kit
emergency theory
emergency treatment
emergent
emergent evolution
emergent literacy
emergently
emergentness
emergents
emerges
emergetic

Literary usage of Emergency room

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

1. Case Studies from the Quality Improvement Support System by David H. Gustafson (1998)
"Reducing Asthma Revisits to the emergency room Introduction In 1994, a State Department of Health provided a special grant to a major city's Health and ..."

2. Drug Use Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities edited by Andrea Kopstein (1998)
"DRUG-RELATED emergency room EPISODES Drug-related hospital ER cases provide one measure of the health risks associated with drug use. ..."

3. Health Status of Minorities & Low Income Groups by DIANE Publishing Company, Dept. of Health and Human Services, United States (1991)
"By contrast, for cocaine, 26.8 percent of emergency room episodes involved non-Hispanic ... For heroin/morphine, emergency room drug abuse related episodes, ..."

4. What Work Requires of Schools: A Scans Report for America 2000 (1991)
"Health Services Luretta is the registrar in the emergency room of City ... Stress in the emergency room is almost tangible, particularly on weekends. ..."

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