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单词 gurney
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Definition of gurney in English:

gurney

nounPlural gurneys ˈɡəːniˈɡərnē
North American
  • A wheeled stretcher used for transporting hospital patients.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We take kids to our playground, which has swings and sandboxes that are accessible to wheelchairs and gurneys.
    • The paramedics put me on a gurney and wheeled me toward the ambulance.
    • What revolution could be ignited by a man who snivelled and struggled his way onto the hospital gurney?
    • Price control is a policy the government will not apply to its own strategies while leaving it to consumers in supermarkets, pubs, waiting rooms and on hospital gurneys to suffer the consequences.
    • In the emergency room, draped surgeons paced anxiously alongside empty gurneys.
    • His department, responsible for moving patients around in wheelchairs and on gurneys, had already been cut from three people to two.
    • There are patients in wheelchairs and on gurneys.
    • The only sound was the wheels of the gurney, until they stopped suddenly.
    • Other stretchers or gurneys have weight limits and may not be of sufficient dimension to accommodate the patient.
    • All assumptions were proven correct when a transport gurney and an EMS crew came in the front door.
    • At the hospital, John walked along side the gurney into the emergency room.
    • None of us present will forget the sight of him lying on the hospital gurney about to be wheeled into the operating room.
    • Mike then quickly inserted a catheter and valve then taped it down just as the medics from the ambulance wheeled in a gurney.
    • Melissa indicates her choice by touching a happy face patch sewn into the cover of her hospital gurney or she touches the book.
    • He tells me about one particular incident in 2002, when an explosive belt was found under a gurney transporting a sick child to hospital.
    • The men released the wheels on the gurney and pushed me up a ramp and into the ambulance.
    • Others rest in flag-draped coffins or come home strapped to hospital gurneys.
    • I was rescued from ending up on a hospital gurney or in a straitjacket by a combination of clarity and crisis.
    • The town's economy now resembles a comatose patient on a gurney, ready to be wheeled who knows where.
    • If the patient is very uncomfortable with the frame in place, he or she is placed on a gurney at this point.

Origin

Late 19th century: apparently named after J. T. Gurney of Boston, Massachusetts, patentee of a new cab design in 1883.

Rhymes

attorney, Burney, Czerny, Ernie, ferny, journey, Verny
 
 

Definition of gurney in US English:

gurney

nounˈɡərnē
North American
  • A wheeled stretcher used for transporting hospital patients.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • None of us present will forget the sight of him lying on the hospital gurney about to be wheeled into the operating room.
    • There are patients in wheelchairs and on gurneys.
    • Other stretchers or gurneys have weight limits and may not be of sufficient dimension to accommodate the patient.
    • In the emergency room, draped surgeons paced anxiously alongside empty gurneys.
    • His department, responsible for moving patients around in wheelchairs and on gurneys, had already been cut from three people to two.
    • At the hospital, John walked along side the gurney into the emergency room.
    • Price control is a policy the government will not apply to its own strategies while leaving it to consumers in supermarkets, pubs, waiting rooms and on hospital gurneys to suffer the consequences.
    • Mike then quickly inserted a catheter and valve then taped it down just as the medics from the ambulance wheeled in a gurney.
    • Melissa indicates her choice by touching a happy face patch sewn into the cover of her hospital gurney or she touches the book.
    • Others rest in flag-draped coffins or come home strapped to hospital gurneys.
    • I was rescued from ending up on a hospital gurney or in a straitjacket by a combination of clarity and crisis.
    • The only sound was the wheels of the gurney, until they stopped suddenly.
    • The men released the wheels on the gurney and pushed me up a ramp and into the ambulance.
    • The town's economy now resembles a comatose patient on a gurney, ready to be wheeled who knows where.
    • He tells me about one particular incident in 2002, when an explosive belt was found under a gurney transporting a sick child to hospital.
    • All assumptions were proven correct when a transport gurney and an EMS crew came in the front door.
    • The paramedics put me on a gurney and wheeled me toward the ambulance.
    • We take kids to our playground, which has swings and sandboxes that are accessible to wheelchairs and gurneys.
    • If the patient is very uncomfortable with the frame in place, he or she is placed on a gurney at this point.
    • What revolution could be ignited by a man who snivelled and struggled his way onto the hospital gurney?

Origin

Late 19th century: apparently named after J. T. Gurney of Boston, Massachusetts, patentee of a new cab design in 1883.

 
 
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