Definition of corpsman in US English:
corpsman
noun ˈkôrzmənˈkôrmənˈkôrmənˈkôrzmən
US 1An enlisted member of a military medical unit.
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- An example is the scene in the church in which Wade, the medical corpsman in the unit, talks about waiting for his mother to come home from work.
- We also brought a hospital corpsman with us, in case of any in-flight medical emergencies.
- A corpsman checked him out, found his pulse and blood pressure to be excessively high, and referred him to the base hospital.
- Navy corpsman and Army medical components worked side-by-side with Canadian medical units to provide care, but there was a problem.
- That platoon depends upon the corpsman's ability to think and react quickly in combat and in other critical situations.
- 1.1 A member of a civilian corps, especially a paramedical corps.
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- Studies after Desert Storm showed that wartime trauma experience in the military was primarily supplied by Reserve doctors and corpsmen who worked in civilian trauma centers.