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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

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

The resulting dizziness or delirium can trigger a visit to the hospital emergency room.

From MarketWatch Jul. 12, 2026

All it would take would be one visit to a vuvv emergency room.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson




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