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
- disseminated sclerosis
- dissemination
- disseminator
- disseminule
- dissension
- dissensus
- dissent
- dissenter
- dissentient
- dissentious
- dissepiment
- dissertate
- dissertation
- dissertational
- disservice
- dissever
- disseverance
- disseverment
- dissidence
- dissident
- dissimilar
- dissimilarity
- dissimilarly
- dissimilate
- dissimilation