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- noun Plural form of
gurney .
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Examples
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Okay – the first night I might have heard metal gurneys from the 1930s being pushed back and forth in the hallways.
Ghost Hunting - Part 2 | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008
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Is it possible that watching TV food ads that begin suddenly with no warningjust a blastofloud screams or an ambulance siren for the audio and a closeup of a face or medical equipment such as gurneys or sick patientsfor the video actually interrupt signals in your brain, heart, and autonomic nervous system?
How Do Loud, Screaming, Repetitive TV, Video, or Radio Food Ads Interrupt Signals in Your Brain? 2009
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They were all being forced to become federal employees, And all the old patients in the hospital ..... they had been wheeled out on gurneys and left in the street under the hot sun and shivering cold night to die.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pretending that no law professors question Obamacare 2010
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The knives are sharpened and the shiny steel gurneys bloodied at All American Gator Products, the end of the line for about 1,000 alligators killed during this year's hunting season in Florida.
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If there were urgent-care centers for people who've flipped their lids watching too much Fox News or MSNBC, the nurses there would strap these frantic citizens to gurneys and administer "God in America" via a nice, slow IV drip, like a powerful PBS antibiotic.
PBS's calm and evenhanded 'God in America' Hank Stuever 2010
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When the ER runs out of rooms, doctors will treat patients on gurneys in the hallway.
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"I've been on the gurneys as a patient, over the gurneys as a doctor, done a lot of chest compressions, thoracotomies and intubations, sewn a lot of sutures and snapped on a lot of latex gloves."
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As the two men entered bearing two gurneys, a woman walked back out.
A Long, Painful Reckoning Juro Osawa 2011
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There's no rush of the emergency room -- no gurneys or defibrillators or physicians yelling orders in an environment of barely-controlled chaos.
Lee Woodruff: When Rehab Is Cut -- You Hurt Too Lee Woodruff 2011
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Caren Firouz/Reuters Nurses sat on gurneys as they waited for injured people at the Suleimanieh Central hospital in Manama.
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