emergency medicine

noun

: a medical specialty concerned with the care and treatment of acutely ill or injured patients who need immediate medical attention

Examples of emergency medicine in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The front-runners in the Democratic primary are former state lawmaker and emergency medicine physician Amish Shah and former broadcast journalist Marlene Galán-Woods. — Saige Miller, NPR, 21 July 2026

An actively practicing emergency medicine physician, Menon previously served as a flight surgeon for both SpaceX and NASA. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 14 July 2026

In the next three years, 46 states enacted laws that allowed paramedics to practice emergency medicine. — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2026

First responders tried to resuscitate him, emergency medicine technicians intubated him and rushed him by ambulance to the hospital. — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for emergency medicine

• biomedicine
• telemedicine

Medical Definition

emergency medicine

noun

: a medical specialty concerned with the care and treatment of acutely ill or injured patients who need immediate medical attention