stretchering
Bearing the wounded
Stretchering is the act of transporting someone on a stretcher—a portable frame for carrying the injured or ill.
The word appears most often in sports and emergency contexts: He was stretchered off the field after the collision.
The passive construction dominates: being stretchered somewhere suggests injury serious enough to prevent walking.
Mobile patient transport bed
- litterScattered waste or debris
- patientAble to wait calmly
- immobilizationPreventing movement entirely
- splintDevice immobilizing injured limbs
hospital · ward · paramedic · ambulance · admission · bedridden · backboard · triage
Holding and moving
- liftingRaising something heavy
- loadingAdding weight or cargo
- transferMove between locations
- conveyanceTransfer of property rights
maneuvering · stairs · helicopter · ambulance · portage · handoff · grip · handles
Emergency care provider
- casualtyPerson harmed in disaster
- woundedHaving sustained harm
- combatArmed hostile engagement
- frontlineCombat's forward position
triage · evacuation · medevac · corpsman · artillery · shelling · no-man's-land · trenches
Decisive dangerous moment
- urgencyPressing need for action
- accidentUnintended harmful event
- incidentA distinct event
- paramedicsEmergency medical technicians
sirens · 911 · critical · life-threatening · dispatch · on-scene · casualty · stabilize
One still alive after
- extractionAct of removing
- trappedUnable to escape
- debrisScattered broken fragments
- collapseSudden structural failure
cliff · harness · rope · helicopter · search · recovery · terrain · wilderness
gurney
Mobile patient transport bed
- litterScattered waste or debris
- patientAble to wait calmly
- immobilizationPreventing movement entirely
splint · hospital · ward · paramedic · ambulance · admission · bedridden · backboard · triage · clinic
carrying
Holding and moving
conveyance · maneuvering · stairs · helicopter · ambulance · portage · handoff · grip · handles · wheels
medic
Emergency care provider
frontline · triage · evacuation · medevac · corpsman · artillery · shelling · no-man's-land · trenches · casualties
crisis
Decisive dangerous moment
paramedics · sirens · 911 · critical · life-threatening · dispatch · on-scene · casualty · stabilize · assess
survivor
One still alive after
- extractionAct of removing
- trappedUnable to escape
- debrisScattered broken fragments
collapse · cliff · harness · rope · helicopter · search · recovery · terrain · wilderness · disaster
stretcheringwalking out
Leaving suddenly, often angrily
walking off · walking away · ambulating · running off · crutching
stretcheringwalking
Locomotion on foot
walking unaided · standing · running · mobile · ambulatory
stretch, stretching, stretched, stretcher, stretches, outstretched, stretchable, stretchers, unstretched