emergency room
180
2.4
- noun
- /ɪˈmɜrdʒənsi ruːm/
- US
:
sala de emergencias
- Patients are treated immediately when they arrive at the emergency room with serious conditions.
- emergency room visits
- go to the ER
- emergency room patients
And she was an emergency room nurse.
- And she was an emergency room nurse.
- And that's, I had to go to not the emergency room, but urgent care relatively recently.
- Checked in and, you know, went through the whole emergency room process, which is wild, by the way.
- So this is the point at which you go to an emergency room.
- They also found that they used the hospital less, they were in the emergency room less and they lived longer.
- The the first real memory, I was actually in the emergency room of this trauma center being wheeled around.
- So during this time, Kate Cox's condition is deteriorating and she's in and out of the emergency room.
- When we hear about women in emergency rooms being turned away and risking sepsis in the parking lot.
- We have a crisis in mental health in emergency rooms, in particular youth mental health, but it's across the board.
Examples
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Emergency rooms are so crowded, hospitals are turning ambulances away.
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By the time she reached the emergency room, Bethany had lost more than half of her body's blood.
Academic text (2011) -
Just tell me where the emergency room is.
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Took him to the emergency room.
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So they fixed him up in the emergency room and sent him home.
Fiction book (1990) -
So, I sat in the emergency room and I asked "Why?"
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And then by the end of the day, she was in the emergency room getting tests done.
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You're a doctor in an emergency room, and six patients come to you.
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If your throat is closing, you need an EpiPen and you need to be in an emergency room now.
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If your throat is closing, you need an EpiPen and you need to be in an emergency room now.
Synonyms
388
3.5
A hospital department that treats people who need immediate medical help
How Urgent
- Specialized
18
3.1
- Specialized
3
3.9
- US
180
2.4
3
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the part of a hospital where people with serious or urgent medical problems are treated immediately' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'emergency' (a sudden incident requiring immediate action) with 'room' (a distinct indoor area). This composition — a room for emergencies — follows straightforward noun-noun compound logic and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun emergency room names a special room for sudden medical emergencies. Picture someone rushed straight into that room so doctors can help them 'right away', and that's why it means the part of a hospital for serious or 'urgent' care.