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noun

a specially equipped motor vehicle, airplane, ship, etc., for carrying sick or injured people, usually to a hospital.

(formerly) a field hospital.

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Origin:
1800–10; < French, equivalent to (hôpital) ambul(ant) walking (hospital) + -ance -ance. See ambulant

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Stethoscopes carried by ambulance crews may be exposing patients to drug-resistant bacteria, a new study reports.

Ambulance personnel often don't know how to diagnose or treat heat stroke on the spot either.

The police, fire-fighters and ambulance service are at the scene, but it is clear he.

Some people even use a rickshaw instead of an ambulance.

Its obvious and next time you ride in an ambulance tell me how stupid the trickle down is.

Another is an unmanned ambulance to take the wounded off the battlefield.

As soon as an ambulance is dispatched, another is sent from a lower-ranking post to replace it.

And then a friend of mine who worked on an ambulance crew once picked up a young woman who gave birth in the ambulance.

Later in the day guards at a checkpoint stopped a bomber who was driving an ambulance full of explosives.

My uncle had a false negative for lymes, intense pain which necessitated taking an ambulance to the hospital a number of times.

When shut, the box warms up and sends a call to a nearby ambulance service.

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By the time he came out of it, he was in an ambulance.

Later in the day they also stopped a suicide-bomber from driving an ambulance full of explosives into anything worthwhile.

Quiet is better than loud so you could hear ambulance siren better.

He said she was taken to the hospital in an ambulance.

Calipari's nephew was one of the technicians in that ambulance.

Although an ambulance is on they way, they cannot get there as fast as a nearby person can.

Sometimes a good vein is hard to find-especially when you're bouncing around in an ambulance or working on a convulsing junkie.

Borakove said that because of the nature of the injuries it would not have mattered when the ambulance arrived.

Ambulances were accompanying them and one ambulance was full with weapons.

Which means this is more than an awesome field ambulance.

The specialist said the delay in summoning an ambulance made the injuries life-threatening.

Too bad the ambulance chasers will keep it from ever happening.

Later when she was in the ambulance she felt the energy in her body lift and her spirit surrender.

Specially trained teams will save emergency patients' organs if the primary ambulance fails to save their lives.

Keep it in your back pocket, and save the other iPhone to call the ambulance when your thumbs drop off.

Air ambulance services are locked in air wars over patient-rich areas as medical airlifting grows more profitable.

Every ambulance and fire truck will be trackable on digital maps.

The police and ambulance were summoned immediately, but there was a twenty-minute wait before their arrival.

Police and an ambulance arrived, followed by a diving team that searched the bay.

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World English Dictionary

ambulance (ˈæmbjʊləns)

—n
	a motor vehicle designed to carry sick or injured people

[C19: from French, based on (hôpital) ambulant mobile or field (hospital), from Latin ambulāre to walk]

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Word Origin & History

ambulance

1809, "mobile or field hospital," from Fr. (hôpital) ambulant, lit. "walking (hospital)," from L. ambulans (gen. ambulantis), from ambulare "to walk" (see amble). Not common until meaning transferred from "field hospital" to "vehicle for conveying wounded from field"

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(1854) during the Crimean War. Ambulance-chaser as a contemptuous term for a type of lawyer dates from 1897.

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Medical Dictionary

ambulance am·bu·lance (ām'byə-ləns)
n.
A specially equipped vehicle used to transport the sick or injured.

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