emergency room

[ ih-mur-juhn-see room, room ]

noun

1. a hospital area equipped and staffed for the prompt treatment of acute illness, trauma, or other medical emergencies. : ER

Example Sentences

Since Tuesday, 17 children had arrived at the emergency room showing signs of malnutrition and an elderly man had died due to severe dehydration, he added.

From BBC

He took her to an emergency room where she was pronounced dead.

From BBC

I walked by the emergency room of one of the big hospitals downtown.

From Salon

Set around the hospital’s emergency room, which keeps the narrative compact and busy and requires fewer sets, it comes with the customary variety pack of characters.

From Los Angeles Times

Activists expect the Trump administration to revoke a Biden directive that requires emergency rooms to provide abortions when necessary to stabilize a woman’s health, even in states with abortion bans.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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