ER
Critical care ward
ER stands for emergency room, the hospital department that handles urgent medical cases: They rushed him to the ER after the accident.
The abbreviation dominates casual speech and writing, while "emergency room" or "emergency department" appears in formal contexts.
ER was also the title of a long-running American medical drama. (Lowercase er is a hesitation sound.)
Status of greater importance
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
- severityIntensity of sternness
- urgentNeeding immediate attention
- non-urgentNot requiring immediate action
waiting · evaluation · queue · acuity · screening · fast-track · critical · stable
Physical or psychological harm
- woundCoiled, or an injury
- hemorrhageProfuse discharge of blood
- fractureSplit in hard material
- lacerationTorn, ragged wound
concussion · shock · bleeding · critical · resuscitation · CPR · intubation · stabilization
Involving measured contrast
teacher · bigger · faster · grammar · morpheme · inflection · derivational · formation
priority
Status of greater importance
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
- severityIntensity of sternness
- urgentNeeding immediate attention
non-urgent · waiting · evaluation · queue · acuity · screening · fast-track · critical · stable · walk-in
injury
Physical or psychological harm
- woundCoiled, or an injury
- hemorrhageProfuse discharge of blood
- fractureSplit in hard material
laceration · concussion · shock · bleeding · critical · resuscitation · CPR · intubation · stabilization · life-support
comparative
Involving measured contrast
doer · teacher · bigger · faster · grammar · morpheme · inflection · derivational · formation · productive
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- medicinedoctor, doctors, hospital, medicine, surgery
- emergency medicalemergency room, ambulance, EMS, EMT, paramedic
- hospitalshospital, emergency room, ICU, operating room, operating rooms
- emergencies911, ambulance, emergency, emergency room, paramedic
- emergency facilitiesfire station, police station, hospital, emergency room, 911 center
Medical facility without hospitalization
routine checkup · doctor's office · primary care · wellness visit · annual physical
Medical facility without hospitalization
doctor's office · private practice · home care · community health center · hospice
Health maintenance before disease
wellness program · health maintenance · prophylaxis · screening · vaccination clinic
- trial and errorLearning through repeated attempts
- billing errorIncorrect charge on statement
- disk errorStorage medium malfunction
- margins of errorAllowable deviation in measurements
- syntax errorsInvalid code structure
- error messageSoftware's complaint about problems