emergency room
noun
: a hospital room or area staffed and equipped for the reception and treatment of persons requiring immediate medical care
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There she was pronounced dead in an emergency room.
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Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
Exposure to carbon monoxide, a colorless and odorless gas, is responsible for more than 100,000 trips to the emergency room, 14,000 hospitalizations and 400 deaths in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
—Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2024
His behavior in the emergency room – viewed as uncaring by doctors, nurses and the police, who believed it a sign of his guilt – was actually a manifestation of autism spectrum disorder, which went undiagnosed until 2018, according to his attorneys.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
At the emergency room, doctors observed symptoms consistent with brain death and she was pronounced dead the next day.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
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Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
Exposure to carbon monoxide, a colorless and odorless gas, is responsible for more than 100,000 trips to the emergency room, 14,000 hospitalizations and 400 deaths in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
—Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2024
His behavior in the emergency room – viewed as uncaring by doctors, nurses and the police, who believed it a sign of his guilt – was actually a manifestation of autism spectrum disorder, which went undiagnosed until 2018, according to his attorneys.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
At the emergency room, doctors observed symptoms consistent with brain death and she was pronounced dead the next day.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Emergency room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emergency%20room. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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