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emergency room

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


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As they grew up, they went into the emergency room for X-rays, stitches and treatment for fevers and infections.

From Los Angeles Times

She has had to go to the emergency room a few times, her body shaking.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sometimes, she will send a patient to a hospital emergency room, in hopes that a pulmonologist will be called in.

From The Wall Street Journal

She set out on the 13-minute walk to the emergency room of UF Health Jacksonville, the hospital where she had given birth to her son.

From The Wall Street Journal

Now, when he gets painful kidney stones, Gutierrez avoids the overcrowded and chaotic emergency room and heads to Sollis’ serene facility on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

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