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
- metabolise
- metabolism
- Metabolist
- metabolite
- metabolizability
- metabolizable
- metabolize
- metabolizer
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- metaborate
- metaboric acid
- metabotropic
- metabranchial
- metacarpal
- metacarpophalangeal
- metacarpus
- metacenter
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- metacercaria