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What (who) is stretcher - definition

EQUIPMENT FOR MOVING PATIENTS IN NEED OF MEDICAL CARE
Gurney; Stretchers; Hospital stretcher
  • Armed escort carries the wounded to the Senegalese border, Guinea-Bissau, 1974.
  • A wounded knight is carried on a medieval stretcher.
  • Scoop stretcher
  • Illustration of chair stretcher, "On the Transport of sick and wounded troops", 1868.
  • EMTs using a stretcher in 2001.
  • U.S. Marines transport a non-ambulatory [[patient]], outside of [[Fallujah]], [[Iraq]] in 2006
  • U.S. Marines]] in a training environment in December 2003.

stretcher         
n.
Litter.
stretcher         
n. (to carry smb.) on a stretcher
stretcher         
(stretchers, stretchered)
1.
A stretcher is a long piece of canvas with a pole along each side, which is used to carry an injured or sick person.
The two ambulance attendants quickly put Plover on a stretcher and got him into the ambulance.
N-COUNT
2.
If someone is stretchered somewhere, they are carried there on a stretcher.
I was close by as Lester was stretchered into the ambulance...
V-PASSIVE: be V-ed prep/adv

Wikipedia

Stretcher

A stretcher, gurney, litter, or pram is an apparatus used for moving patients who require medical care. A basic type (cot or litter) must be carried by two or more people. A wheeled stretcher (known as a gurney, trolley, bed or cart) is often equipped with variable height frames, wheels, tracks, or skids. Stretchers are primarily used in acute out-of-hospital care situations by emergency medical services (EMS), military, and search and rescue personnel. In medical forensics the right arm of a corpse is left hanging off the stretcher to let paramedics know it is not a wounded patient. They are also used to hold prisoners during lethal injections in the United States.

Examples of use of stretcher
1. A blanket was found and turned into a makeshift stretcher.
2. They carried a stretcher and several metres of white cloth.
3. Steve rushed back to the lodge to get a stretcher.
4. Army personnel moved from stretcher to stretcher, shaking the figures lying there with their eyes closed and bodies frozen in misery, checking that they were still alive.
5. A bleeding woman was wheeled away on a stretcher.