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emergency room

Noun

Meaning

a room in a hospital or clinic staffed and equipped to provide emergency care to persons requiring immediate medical treatment

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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room. Larry Wall

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too. Anna Quindlen

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis. Brad Henry

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room. Jan Schakowsky

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room. James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. Jeffrey Eugenides

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