emergent
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- adjective
- /ɪˈmɜrdʒənt/
- Specialized
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urgente
- The patient is experiencing an emergent situation and requires immediate medical attention.
- emergent patients
- an emergent crisis
- an emergent problem
Examples
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Added to the growing population and expanding needs for medical services is an emergent, unanticipated, "entitlement mentality."
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Rather, reform was the government's passive response to an emergent crisis of unemployment.
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The prompt and almost emergent method of handling the situation helps both the patient and the original surgeon.
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For example, social workers may know from police reports of an emergent domestic violence problem in a specific immigrant neighborhood.
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In unstable patients, an emergent external fixation can be placed in the emergency room.
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Due to the patient's severe respiratory distress, he was brought to the operating room where an emergent tracheostomy was performed.
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The concluding section offers a few observations aimed at promoting debate over possible responses to an emergent security crisis.
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Five interventions led to angioplasty or emergent bypass surgery, averting lasting disabilities.
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In case of an emergent event, please contact the emergency services without delay.
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The team was prepared to handle any emergent cases that might arise during the surgery.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
A theory that new qualities appear during the history of life and cannot be predicted from what came before
How Urgent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Emergent is related to the common word emerge and to emergency, and it comes from Latin emergere meaning 'to rise out'. A helpful way to remember this sense is to imagine a sudden problem 'rising out' that needs quick action, so emergent describes something that happens unexpectedly and needs urgent response.