emergency roomnoun
uk/ɪˈmɜː.dʒən.si ˌruːm/us/ɪˈmɝː.dʒən.si ˌruːm/abbreviation ER, UK A & E, casualtythe part of a hospital where people go when they are ill or injured and need treatment quickly:
She had to be rushed to the emergency room.
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Medical places & organizations
- A & E
- asylum
- detoxification centre
- ear, nose, and throat
- ENT
- er
- health maintenance organization
- institution
- intensive care
- lunatic asylum
- madhouse
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- mental hospital
- operating room
- outpatients
- sanitarium
- surgery
- the funny farm
- theatre
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