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gurney

/gur-nee/US // ˈgɜr ni //UK // (ˈɡɜːnɪ) //

轮床,轮椅,外衣,轮椅上的人

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural gur·neys.

    • : a flat, padded table or stretcher with legs and wheels, for transporting patients or bodies.

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Examples

  • The hospital was in chaos and the wards were packed, with all 708 covid beds occupied—so 69-year-old Joseph Paul Alvares, a cancer survivor, had to lie on a gurney for nearly three days for a bed to become available.

  • Diaz and Sanchez wheeled their patient toward the back entrance of the emergency department, where they joined a phalanx of other gurneys.

  • Members of his crew, recently arrived from Mumbai, were maneuvering around vestigial baby cots and gurneys.

  • When the family went into the hospital room, Young was lying on a gurney.

  • At the company’s flagship Los Angeles hospital, persistent elevator breakdowns sometimes require emergency room nurses to wheel patients on gurneys across a public street as a security guard attempts to halt traffic.

  • “He was trying to talk, ripping his head and shoulders off the gurney,” Fretland said.

  • Myers and Gurney felt such actions were a means to validate the report.

  • Often these people end up on a special kind of board with legs that fold out, a gurney.

  • Lockett began to convulse violently, his head and chest rising up off the gurney multiple times as he called out, “Oh, man.”

  • Less than 10 minutes later, the attendants wheeled out the gurney, which now bore a black body bag.

  • "She doesn't know anything you want to know," exclaimed Eliza Gurney, coming into the room.

  • Miss Gurney was not a beautiful woman at best, and her rage transformed her into a veritable termagant.

  • There are no women sufficiently interested in his death to be suspected of it except Letitia and Eliza Gurney.

  • She suppressed a shriek at the moment; but she could not tell Mr. Gurney of it afterward, without tears.

  • Mr. Gurney was very gentle; but, as he said, what could he suggest but indigestion, or some such cause of nervous disturbance?