单词 | casevac |
释义 | casevacn. Military colloquial. The emergency removal of casualties from a war zone to hospital by air; an instance of this. Cf. casevac v.Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > place in hospital [verb (transitive)] > from war-zone casevac1953 the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [adjective] > hospital > hospitalization casevac1953 the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > confinement to or accommodation in > specific rooming-in1943 casevac1953 1953 Flight 27 Mar. 404/1 The masks of sleepers dangling from the stretchers imparted a realistic ‘cas. evac.’ atmosphere. 1959 Times Rev. Industry May 40/2 The last link with the Far East ‘casevac’ service was forged when..in 1950..aircraft loaded with stretcher cases flew from Singapore to the U.K. 1962 Illustr. London News 22 Sept. 431 (caption) They are training for their role in ‘casevac’, the R.A.F. transport command's medical evacuation programme. 1986 Airextra Aug. 11/3 In the casevac role, the ‘Hip-C’ can carry 12 stretchers. 2000 T. Carew Jihad! (2001) iii. 82 A donkey cart arrived about four hours later to begin the casevac of the seriously wounded into Pakistan. 2008 Today (Duncanville, Texas) 17 Apr. 5/6 The squad leader received a gunshot wound to the chest requiring a Casevac. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). casevacv. Military colloquial. transitive. To carry out an emergency airborne evacuation of (a casualty) from a war zone. Cf. casevac n. ΚΠ 1964 Tank Jan. 111/1 We are glad to have Cpl. Marshall and Tpr. Hatrey back with us; the former had to be ‘casevaced’ out of Muscat and Oman with a fractured knee. 1967 D. Peirse in N. R. D. King et al. All Queen's Men 136 I was ‘casevaced’ back to England and incarcerated in the RAF Hospital at Halton. 1982 R. Fox Eyewitness Falklands 253 Kim Sabido..moved with one of the rifle companies. A man next to him was hit and had to be casevaced. 2009 P. Hennessey Junior Officers' Reading Club 286 We can almost hear them over the net, squirming at trying to get out of casevacing the guy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1953v.1964 |
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