emergency medicine

[ ih-mur-juhn-see med-uh-sin ]

noun

1. a branch of medicine dealing with acute illness and other medical emergencies.

Word History and Origins

Origin of emergency medicine¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

There were failures in the entire system but a lot of the pressure and risk was being heaped on this one area of emergency medicine, he added.

From BBC

His LinkedIn profile showed that he previously worked as a security officer at the US embassy in Berlin, before moving into healthcare working as a nurse and specialising in emergency medicine.

From BBC

Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix embraced the protocol last summer, said Dr. Aneesh Narang, assistant medical director of emergency medicine there.

From Seattle Times

He received his medical training in internal and emergency medicine in Philadelphia in the 1980s, and was working as a doctor at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania before coming to Seattle.

From Seattle Times

A forthcoming Supreme Court decision this June on access to lifesaving care threatens the very basis of why I became an emergency medicine doctor: anyone, anywhere, anytime.

From Salon