emergency medical technician

noun

: emt

Examples of emergency medical technician in a Sentence

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In the first month of its all-out air offensive in Lebanon, which began on September 23, Israeli strikes damaged 34 hospitals, killed 111 emergency medical technicians (EMTs), and hit 107 ambulances, according to data compiled by the Lebanese health ministry. Allegra Goodwin and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024 On Thanksgiving afternoon in 2021, emergency medical technician Dennis Hobson was summoned to a house in the tiny village of Farmersville, Illinois. Paul Larosa, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024 The system covers corrections officers, police officers and firefighters but not emergency medical technicians. Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024 In the United States, users include personnel in the medical field — such as doctors and emergency medical technicians — and some nuclear power plant operators. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for emergency medical technician 

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of emergency medical technician was in 1980

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“Emergency medical technician.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emergency%20medical%20technician. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.

Medical Definition

emergency medical technician

noun
: emt

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