gurney

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see also: Gurney

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Noun

gurney (plural gurneys)

1. (US) A stretcher having wheeled legs.

   Synonyms: trolley

   • 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, Fourth Estate, paperback edition, page 22

     Yet her vision has narrowed strangely (good, for she was in a medical facility, if she were having a hemorrhage or a stroke it could not be happening at a more convenient time) so that she was able to see little in the fluorescent-lit space except the man who lay motionless on a gurney beneath the strongest of the lights.

   • 2005, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, Number 506: The Talk, Part 7

     I’m pretty sure I didn’t actively steer towards the tree, but… I don’t know. I just remember that wave of despair and then the EMTs pulling me out of the car and putting me on a gurney.

Translations

• French: civière, brancard
• German: Rollbahre, Tragbahre, Trage
• Italian: barella
• Portuguese: marquesa, maca
• Russian: ката́лка
• Spanish: camilla

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Gurney

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Proper noun

1. Surname

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