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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This could be the emergency room or an urgent care center.
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Maggie Aime, Msn, Health, 6 Dec. 2024
The emergency room at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for example, is nearing capacity as increases in hospitalizations for RSV and pneumonia rise.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
Thirty days later, Florida emergency room prescription opioid overdoses plummeted.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2024
Mama ended up at death's door in the emergency room but did not miscarry.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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Maggie Aime, Msn, Health, 6 Dec. 2024
The emergency room at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for example, is nearing capacity as increases in hospitalizations for RSV and pneumonia rise.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
Thirty days later, Florida emergency room prescription opioid overdoses plummeted.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2024
Mama ended up at death's door in the emergency room but did not miscarry.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Emergency room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emergency%20room. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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