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emergency room

[ih-mur-juhn-see room, room] / ɪˈmɜr dʒən si ˌrum, ˌrʊm /


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The Saturday morning calm at Catalina Island Health’s two-bed emergency room was broken just before noon, when two tourists with arm injuries burst in within minutes of one another.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Yet the bigger blow hits when patients without coverage come to the emergency room.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

At the urging of a coworker, he finally visited an urgent care facility and, upon arrival, was told that he immediately needed to go to an emergency room.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

But in the race to take on Feely, Amish Shah, an emergency room physician, is leading Marlene Galán-Woods, a former broadcast journalist whom Democrats’ House campaign arm had endorsed.

From Slate Jul. 22, 2026

They were waiting in the emergency room of the Coconut Cove Medical Center, which was more of a large clinic than a hospital.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen




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