emergency room

English

Noun

emergency room (plural emergency rooms)

(US, Canada, healthcare) A department of a hospital where seriously ill or injured patients, often with life-threatening conditions that require urgent or immediate treatment, are brought in, usually by ambulance.

Synonyms

emergency department
accident and emergency (A&E)
casualty (UK)
emergency ward (EW)
emerg
ER (abbreviation)

Translations

hospital department

Chinese:
Cantonese: 急症室 (gap¹ zing³ sat¹)

Mandarin: 急診室 (zh), 急诊室 (zh) (jízhěnshì)
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: spoedeisende hulp
Faroese: skaðastova f
Finnish: ensiapupoliklinikka, päivystysosasto, päivystyspoliklinikka (fi)
French: salle d'urgences f, salle des urgences f
German: Notaufnahme (de) f, Sanitätsraum m

Irish: Timpistí agus Éigeandáil f pl
Italian: pronto soccorso (it)
Navajo: ąąh áʼálʼį́ bił hazʼą́, nitsohodínídéelgo ąąh áʼálʼį́, nitsohodínídéelgo bił hazʼáníjí
Portuguese: pronto-socorro
Romanian: sală de urgență f
Russian: отделе́ние э́кстренной медици́нской по́мощи n (otdelénije ékstrennoj medicínskoj pómošči), (colloquial) неотло́жка (ru) f (neotlóžka)
Spanish: sala de emergencias f
Swedish: akutmottagning (sv) c
Welsh: ward ddamweiniau f

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