gurney
/ˈɡəːni
/noun (plural gurneys) chiefly North American
A wheeled stretcher used for transporting hospital patients.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.
- He tells me about one particular incident in 2002, when an explosive belt was found under a gurney transporting a sick child to hospital.
Origin
Late 19th century: apparently named after J. T. Gurney of Boston, Massachusetts, patentee of a new cab design in 1883.
Rhymes
- a bolt from (or out of) the blue
- aboma
- abomasal
- abomasum
- abomasus
- A-bomb
- Abomey
- abominable
- abominableness
- Abominable Snowman
- abominably
- abominate
- abomination
- abominator
- abondance
- abonnement
- abonné
- aborad
- aboral
- aborally
- aborigen
- aborigin
- aboriginal
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
- Aboriginalisation