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first aid

noun

emergency aid or treatment given to someone injured, suddenly ill, etc., before regular medical services arrive or can be reached.

first aid

1. immediate medical assistance given in an emergency
2. ( as modifier )
  first-aid box
(in Barbados) a small shop that sells domestic items after hours

First recorded in 1880–85

My only real expenses have been things like first-aid kits, water-purification tablets, batteries, walkie talkies and the like.

The marathon is a 26-mile-long feeding, hydrating, first-aid, and security system.

Forerunner of the many first-aid classes to come was that hour of Mabel's, and made memorable by one thing she said.

Here I was given a first-aid dressing and immediately after carried away to an old-fashioned village behind the lines.

As she left for the first-aid cabinet, Houston thought bleakly to himself: Harris was framed.

Their wounds—three, four, or five days old—have yet received no attention save the primitive first-aid of the battlefield.

Instead, he carried several canteens of water and his blouse was stuffed with first-aid bandages.

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