paramedics
- 1Plural of paramedic.
Several paramedics arrived at the crash site within minutes.
The hospital trains its paramedics to handle cardiac emergencies in the field.
Note
A regular plural that carries both meanings of the singular. In general use it names people trained to stabilize the injured or suddenly ill outside a hospital and ready them for transport. In the US it can also name a license: people authorized at the state or national level to practice emergency prehospital care. Agreement is plural: the paramedics are on scene.
paramedics is a form of paramedic
paramedic, noun: A trained responder who medically stabilizes victims of trauma or medical emergencies outside a hospital and prepares them for transport to a medical facility. Full entry
- Forms
- paramedicparamedics plural
- Spelling
- paramedic → paramedics: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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