An attendant in a hospital (originally a military hospital) responsible for the non-medical care of patients and the maintenance of order and…

(a) a non-commissioned staff-officer in the U.S. army who makes up prescriptions, administers medicine, and has general charge, under the direction…

= stretcher-bearer n.

(see quot. 1876).

a party of men equipped with stretchers and appliances for assisting and removing the wounded.

the medical corps in the U.S. Navy.

(cf. corpsman, n.).

In Russia, a hospital attendant; spec. a medical orderly in the army.

An enlisted medical auxiliary in the U.S. Navy or Army; = hospital corpsman n. at hospital, n. compounds 2.