Definition of gurney
gurneys
: a wheeled cot or stretcher
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The Inmates cited problems - inmates struggling on gurneys - with executions in nation states using midazolam.
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Last November, the U.S. Supreme Court delayed his execution minutes before he was strapped to the gurney.
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Television images from helicopters showed dozens of employees leaving the hospital, some of them attending to patients who appeared to have been evacuated on gurneys or in wheelchairs.
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An injured passenger is taken on a gurney by firefighters from Atlantic Terminal in the Brooklyn borough of New York after a Long Island Rail Road train hit a bumping block.
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The next morning, just before 8, Carter was on a gurney waiting to be wheeled into transplant surgery.
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My family had to see pictures of my head strapped to a gurney full of pine needles, of my body in the dirt with my eyes closed, dress hiked up, limbs limp in the dark.
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There are wide hallways for gurneys to turn corners, so people can move the patient and resuscitation equipment to an ambulance.
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One woman Peeper met was locked in a horizontal position and lived on a gurney.
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Origin and Etymology of gurney
probably ultimately from Gurney cab type of horse-drawn cab with a rear entrance, from J. Theodore Gurney, who patented such a cab in Boston in 1883
First Known Use: 1939
GURNEY Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of gurney for English Language Learners
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: a bed on a frame with wheels that is used for moving people who are sick or injured
Medical Dictionary
gurney
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gur·ney
\ˈgər-nē\
Medical Definition of gurney
gurneys
: a wheeled cot or stretcher
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