emergency room

emergency room

English

Noun

emergency room (plural emergency rooms)

1. (US, Canada, healthcare) A department of a hospital where seriously ill or injured patients, often with life-threatening conditions that require urgent or immediate treatment, are brought in, usually by ambulance.

Synonyms

• emergency department
• accident and emergency (A&E)
• casualty (UK)
• emergency ward (EW)
• emerg
• ER (abbreviation)

Translations

hospital department

Chinese: Cantonese: 急症室 (gap1 zing3 sat1) Mandarin: 急診室 (zh), 急诊室 (zh) (jízhěnshì) Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: spoedeisende hulp Faroese: skaðastova f Finnish: ensiapupoliklinikka, päivystysosasto, päivystyspoliklinikka (fi) French: salle d'urgences f, salle des urgences f German: Notaufnahme (de) f, Sanitätsraum m

Irish: Timpistí agus Éigeandáil f pl Italian: pronto soccorso (it) Navajo: ąąh áʼálʼį́ bił hazʼą́, nitsohodínídéelgo ąąh áʼálʼį́, nitsohodínídéelgo bił hazʼáníjí Portuguese: pronto-socorro Romanian: sală de urgență f Russian: отделе́ние э́кстренной медици́нской по́мощи n (otdelénije ékstrennoj medicínskoj pómošči), (colloquial) неотло́жка (ru) f (neotlóžka) Spanish: sala de emergencias f Swedish: akutmottagning (sv) c Welsh: ward ddamweiniau f