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ambulance

[am-byuh-luhns]

noun

  1. a specially equipped motor vehicle, airplane, ship, etc., for carrying sick or injured people, usually to a hospital.

  2. (formerly) a field hospital.



ambulance

/ ˈæʊəԲ /

noun

  1. a motor vehicle designed to carry sick or injured people

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ambulance1

1800–10; < French, equivalent to ( ô辱ٲ ) ambul ( ant ) walking (hospital) + -ance -ance. See ambulant
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ambulance1

C19: from French, based on ( ô辱ٲ ) ambulant mobile or field (hospital), from Latin ܱ to walk
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The Iranian Red Crescent also said three of its first responders were killed when an ambulance was hit by an Israeli strike in Tehran's Shahid Bagheri district on Monday.

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Bedfordshire Police said their officers, ambulance and fire crews were still on the scene.

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The ambulance crew didn’t recognize him, and the run sheet — the document paramedics use to record patients’ condition and care — had no revelatory details.

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Around 45 minutes had passed and the place was full of locals, firefighters, ambulance workers and Air India staff.

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"I knew she'd been dead for quite some time so I rang for an ambulance, started CPR and then the paramedics arrived within five minutes and they couldn't do anything," she said.

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