STRETCHER

Stretcher

A stretcher is an apparatus used for moving patients who require medical care. A basic type must be carried by two or more people. Whereas a wheeled stretcher is often equipped with variable height frames containing wheels, tracks, or skids. In American English, a wheeled stretcher is referred to as a gurney. The name comes from a horse-drawn cab patented in the USA by J. Theodore Gurney in 1883 which bore a similarity to early wheeled stretchers.

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stretcher

Noun

  1. One who, or that which, stretches.
  2. A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
  3. A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
  4. A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
  5. A brick laid with the longest side exposed (compare header).
  6. A piece of timber used in building.
  7. A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
  8. A board against which a rower places his feet.
  9. A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and gripped.
  10. One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
  11. An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
  12. A penis, especially a long penis.

Verb

  1. To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.


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