2016年8月26日 星期五

medevac/medivac

The bulk of it, some 110,000 square feet of gallery space, is 70 feet below ground, where the foundations of the towers met raw Manhattan schist.
20 Photos: Lance Corporal Blas Trevino is treated on a helicopter in Afghanistan
Associated Press president Gary Pruitt described Anja as 'spirited, intrepid and fearless, with a raucous laugh that we will always remember'. Here, in this photograph taken on 11 June 2011, Lance Corporal Blas Trevino of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, clutches his Rosary beads as he is treated by US Army flight medic Sgt Joe Campbell on a medevac helicopter after being shot in the stomach outside Sangin, Afghanistan



medevac

Line breaks: med|evac
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛdɪvak/
(also medivac)
North American
noun
[mass noun]
  • The evacuation of military or other casualties to hospital in a helicopter or aeroplane: we radioed Pleiku and asked for medevac [as modifier]: three big medevac choppers

verb (medevacsmedevackingmedevacked)

[with object] 
  • Transport (someone) to hospital in a helicopter or aeroplane: I was medevacked out of Freetown


Origin

1960s: blend of medical and evacuation.

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