单词 | emerg |
释义 | emergn. Medicine slang (originally Canadian). The casualty department of a hospital; the emergency room (cf. emergency room n. at emergency n. Additions). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital department > specific department ambulatorium1834 emergency room1886 emergency department1889 recovery room1894 accident and emergency1898 outpatients1910 X-ray1916 casualty1927 abortorium1933 out1933 ER1955 A and E1966 emerg1978 1978 Toronto Star 12 Feb. (City Mag.) 22/1 Soon it will be relocated.., but that won't likely change the nature of ‘emerg’, as the staff call it. 1990 S. Plews in P. Sellers Cold Blood III 95 Look, are you sure you don't want to go to emerg? 1996 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 8 Sept. (News section) a13 There's a rule in emerg that you never comment it's quiet, because inevitably that's when all hell breaks loose. 2011 Jrnl. Emergency Nursing 37 322/2 We do whatever it takes to make their experience better... Whatever it takes while they're in Emerg. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1978 |
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