paramedic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++par·a·med·ic /ˌpærəˈmedɪk/ noun [countable] BOMNsomeone who has been trained to help people who are hurt or to do medical work, but who is not a doctor or nurse 〔非医生或护士的〕护理人员，医务辅助人员► see thesaurus at doctor —paramedical adjective [usually before noun]
Examples from the Corpus
paramedic• Four days after paramedics recommended Brown be hospitalized, he was transferred to the state mental hospital.• But when I came to retrieve her, my way was blocked by paramedics and fire trucks.• After police used pepper spray to subdue the man, paramedics were called because he was having difficulty breathing, police reported.• Mr Lennon was treated at the scene by a team of paramedics before being taken by ambulance to Wigan Royal Infirmary.• Ambulances, each staffed by one paramedic and one emergency medical technician, must arrive within 12 minutes under the new standards.• In the ring paramedics gave Ingle emergency treatment.• By the time the paramedics arrived, he knew his wife was dead.par·a·med·ic nounChineseSyllable
been people to who trained Corpus has someone help
paramedic
par‧a‧med‧ic /ˌpærəˈmedɪk/
noun [countable]
someone who has been trained to help people who are hurt or to do medical work, but who is not a doctor or nurse
—paramedical adjective [usually before noun]
▪ doctor someone who treats people who are ill, who has completed a long course of study at medical school: If you have bad chest pains, you should see a doctor.
▪GP British English a doctor who is trained in general medicine and who treats the people who live in a local area: My GP told me that I must lose weight.
▪physician /fəˈzɪʃən, fɪˈzɪʃən/ formal especially American English a doctor: the American physician, Dr James Tyler Kent
▪quack informal someone who pretends to be a doctor: My father felt that people practicing alternative medicine were just a bunch of quacks.
▪the medical profession doctors and nurses considered as a group: This view is widely accepted among the medical profession.
▪surgeon /ˈsɜːdʒən $ ˈsɜːr-/ a doctor who does operations in a hospital: One of the world’s top heart surgeons performed the operation.
▪specialist a doctor with special knowledge about a particular illness, part of the body, or type of treatment: The new drug is being tested by cancer specialists. | an eye specialist
▪consultant British English a very senior doctor in a hospital, with a lot of knowledge about a particular area of medicine: The consultant said that he did not think it was cancer.
▪paramedic someone who has been trained to treat sick or injured people, especially at the scene of an accident: Paramedics treated him for shock.
▪vet (also veterinarian especially American English) a doctor who treats animals: We took the cat to the vet.
▪paediatrician British English, pediatrician American English a doctor who treats children who are sick
▪gynaecologist British English, gynecologist American English a doctor who treats medical conditions and illnesses that affect women’s bodies
▪obstetrician a doctor who deals with the birth of children
▪radiographer someone whose job is to take X-rays or to treat people using an X-ray machine
par‧a‧med‧ic /ˌpærəˈmedɪk/
noun [countable]someone who has been trained to help people who are hurt or to do medical work, but who is not a doctor or nurse
—paramedical adjective [usually before noun]
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