stretcher case

noun

An injured person who needs to be carried on a stretcher.

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Meanings

nounstretcher case (plural stretcher cases)

plural stretcher cases

  1. An injured person who needs to be carried on a stretcher.

    Each of the trains is fully equipped with cars for travelling staffs of nurses and doctors, kitchens, and wards for stretcher cases, sitting-up and mental cases.

    1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, pages 315, 317
    1 more example

    We filled two cars with stretcher cases as they came up from the cellar of the post and as I shut the door of the second car and fastened it I felt the rain on my face turn to snow.

    1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 180

Translations

Finnish paaripotilas
  • paaripotilasinjured who needs a stretcher
Polish ranna osoba
  • ranna osobainjured who needs a stretcher
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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