gurney

American  

[gur-nee] / ˈgɜr ni /

noun

PLURAL

gurneys

1. a flat, padded table or stretcher with legs and wheels, for transporting patients or bodies.

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Gurney ¹ British  

/ ˈɡɜːnɪ /

noun

1. Ivor ( Bertie ). 1890–1937, British poet and composer, noted esp for his songs and his poems of World War I

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gurney ² British  

/ ˈɡɜːnɪ /

noun

1. a wheeled stretcher for transporting hospital patients

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Etymology

Origin of gurney

First recorded in 1935–40; of uncertain origin; perhaps after J. Theodore Gurney, American inventor, who invented a two-wheeled horse-drawn cab in 1883

Example Sentences

An image published by state media on Monday showed a room in a main hospital in the city flooded with murky water and two patients seated on gurneys.

From Barron's

His phone rings during a moment of silence for a deceased patient and he injures his finger moving a patient off a gurney.

From Los Angeles Times

Once Matilde was placed on a gurney and moved into an ambulance, she was taken three miles to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center.

From Los Angeles Times

They see and treat heart attacks and strokes, or don’t see them, learning that sometimes the people they think are fine to leave waiting on gurneys aren’t.

From Salon

He said sometimes bodies were left on gurneys in the hallways outside of the morgue covered with nothing more than a bedsheet.

From Los Angeles Times

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