Meaning & use
gurney
A wheeled stretcher or cart used to move patients within a hospital or by paramedics.
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Paramedics wheeled the patient into the emergency room on a gurney.
The nurse adjusted the gurney's height before transferring the patient to the bed.
A note on using this word
Gurney is the standard American English term; British English more commonly uses "trolley" for the same wheeled hospital stretcher.
Words with a similar meaning
stretcher
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