emergency medical technician

noun

An ambulance worker who works in patient stabilization and emergency transport. In some services, an EMT is a trainee who is not a paramedic; in other services, a paramedic is a senior-level EMT, sometimes called an EMT-P in contrast with an EMT-I, etc.

“Near-synonym: paramedic (sometimes broadly synonymous)”

Similar
paramedic[Appendix:Glossary
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounemergency medical technician (plural emergency medical technicians, abbreviation EMT)

plural emergency medical technicians · abbreviation EMT

  1. emergency medical servicesAn ambulance worker who works in patient stabilization and emergency transport. In some services, an EMT is a trainee who is not a paramedic; in other services, a paramedic is a senior-level EMT, sometimes called an EMT-P in contrast with an EMT-I, etc.

    Near-synonym: paramedic (sometimes broadly synonymous)

    Synonyms: paramedic[Appendix:Glossary

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAn ambulance worker who works in patient stabilization and emergency transport. In some services, an EMT is a trainee who is not a paramedic; in other services, a paramedic is a senior-level EMT, sometimes called an EMT-P in contrast with an EMT-I, etc.

Similar
paramedic[Appendix:Glossary
Cite this entry
APA

emergency medical technician. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emergency%20medical%20technician

MLA

“emergency medical technician.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emergency%20medical%20technician. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “emergency medical technician,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emergency%20medical%20technician.

Source: emergency medical technician on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.