stretchers
Portable patient carriers
Stretchers is the plural of stretcher, a portable frame for carrying a sick or injured person, typically with handles at each end so two people can lift: Medics loaded the wounded onto stretchers.
A stretcher is also a frame for stretching something—canvas over a painting frame, or leather during tanning.
In masonry, a stretcher is a brick laid lengthwise along a wall.
Informally, stretchers can mean lies or exaggerations: He's been telling stretchers again.
Mobile patient transport bed
- ambulanceEmergency medical transport
- paramedicPrehospital emergency caregiver
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
- traumaLasting psychological wound
emergency · evacuation · triage · medic · immobilize · transport · patient · backboard
Supporting outer structure
- primedMade ready beforehand
- gallerySpace for displaying artwork
- paintingPigment on canvas
- artistMaker of creative works
mounted · stapled · wrapped · taut · linen · cotton · gesso · easel
Beam connecting two elements
- bracesDental alignment devices
- frameworkUnderlying support system
- barsRods, taverns, or measures
- trestlesRigid supporting frameworks
reinforcement · support · rungs · rails · wooden · tension · spanning · ladder
Decorative addition or exaggeration
- fibbersThose who tell untruths
- yarnsThreads or tall tales
- storytellersPeople who narrate tales
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
whoppers · fabricators · boasters · liars
High shoe or startup
- leatherTanned animal skin
- cedarDurable, fragrant conifer
- spring-loadedPowered by compressed coil
- widenerSomething that broadens
instep · wooden · plastic · adjustable · cobbler · preservation · form · sizing
gurney
Mobile patient transport bed
- ambulanceEmergency medical transport
- paramedicPrehospital emergency caregiver
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
trauma · emergency · evacuation · triage · medic · immobilize · transport · patient · backboard · litter
frame
Supporting outer structure
artist · mounted · stapled · wrapped · taut · linen · cotton · gesso · easel · studio
crosspiece
Beam connecting two elements
trestles · reinforcement · support · rungs · rails · wooden · tension · spanning · ladder · chair
embellishment
Decorative addition or exaggeration
- fibbersThose who tell untruths
- yarnsThreads or tall tales
- storytellersPeople who narrate tales
hyperbole · whoppers · fabricators · boasters · liars
boot
High shoe or startup
- leatherTanned animal skin
- cedarDurable, fragrant conifer
- spring-loadedPowered by compressed coil
widener · instep · wooden · plastic · adjustable · cobbler · preservation · form · sizing · break-in
- militariabayonets, medals, military patches, military insignia, dog tags
- military medicinecombat medics, combat medic, field hospitals, army surgeon, combat medicine
- war medicinecombat medic, combat medics, field hospital, field hospitals, field surgery
- WWI suppliessupply depots, supply trains, rations, medical supplies, food distribution
- art worldartist, painter, painting, paintings, sculpture
- humanitarian aidaid, aid organizations, aid workers, disaster relief, aid agencies
stretcherswalking
Locomotion on foot
walking wounded · upright · mobile · standing · wheelchairs
- stretched outLengthened or spread out
- stretched the truthExaggerated or distorted facts
- stretches outExtends to full length
- stretched thinExtended beyond comfortable limits
- stretches the truthExaggerates or distorts facts
- home stretchesConcluding race segments
stretched, stretcher, stretches, outstretched, overstretched, stretchered