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medevac

/med-uh-vak/US // ˈmɛd əˌvæk //UK // (ˈmɛdɪˌvæk) //

医疗救护,医疗急救,医护人员,救护车

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a helicopter for evacuating the wounded from a battlefield.
    • : an ambulance or other vehicle equipped for emergency transport of medical patients.
    • : any of the trained personnel transporting or otherwise tending to the sick or wounded in a medevac.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    med·e·vacked, med·e·vack·ing.

    • : to transport by medevac.

Examples

  • Who can forget Lindsey Vonn dangling from a Medevac helicopter after her 2013 season-ending crash?

  • Within minutes the medevac helicopter flew him to the nearby surgical center at Forward Operating Base Solerno.

  • My team would have dragged me out and guarded my body until the medevac arrived to carry me to the morgue.

  • Maj. Mary Hegar flew Medevac missions to rescue wounded soldiers.

  • He has deployed to Iraq twice and completed a tour in Afghanistan as a Medevac pilot-in-command and air mission commander.