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am⋅bu⋅lance

  [am-byuh-luhns]
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–noun
1. a specially equipped motor vehicle, airplane, ship, etc., for carrying sick or injured people, usually to a hospital.
2. (formerly) a field hospital.
Origin:
1800–10; < F, equiv. to (hôpital) ambul(ant) walking (hospital) + -ance -ance. See ambulant
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am·bu·lance   (ām'byə-ləns)   
n.  A specially equipped vehicle used to transport the sick or injured.

[French, from (hôpital) ambulant, mobile (hospital), from Latin ambulāns, ambulant-, present participle of ambulāre, to walk; see ambhi in Indo-European roots.]
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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 "hospital" to "vehicle for conveying wounded from field" (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

Main Entry: am·bu·lance
Pronunciation: 'am-b(y)&-l&n(t)s also -"lan(t)s
Function: noun
: a vehicle equipped for transporting theinjured or sick
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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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