gurney

See also: Gurney

English

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Gurney cab, a type of horse-drawn cab on wheels named after Theodore Gurney, the US inventor credited with creating and patenting it in about 1883. For the surname, see Gurney.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni

Noun

gurney (plural gurneys)

1. (US) A stretcher having wheeled legs.

   Synonym: (Britain) trolley

   • 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 22:

     Yet her vision has narrowed strangely (good, for she was in a medical facility, if she were having a hemorrhage or a stroke it could not be happening at a more convenient time) so that she was able to see little in the fluorescent-lit space except the man who lay motionless on a gurney beneath the strongest of the lights.

   • 2005, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, Number 506: The Talk, Part 7

     I’m pretty sure I didn’t actively steer towards the tree, but… I don’t know. I just remember that wave of despair and then the EMTs pulling me out of the car and putting me on a gurney.

Translations

a stretcher having wheeled legs

• Arabic: مِحَفَّة (miḥaffa)
• Bulgarian: носилка на колела f (nosilka na kolela)
• Catalan: llitera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輪床／轮床 (lúnchuáng)

• Czech: vozík (cs) m
• Danish: båre c, bårevogn c
• Dutch: baar (nl) f, draagbaar (nl) f, brancard (nl) m
• Esperanto: brankardo (eo)
• Finnish: pyörälliset paarit, paarit (fi) pl
• French: civière (fr) f, brancard (fr) m
• Galician: padiola f, andas f, angarellas f
• German: Rollbahre f, Tragbahre (de) f, Trage (de) f
• Hungarian: (kerekes) hordágy, betegszállító kocsi
• Italian: barella (it) f
• Japanese: ガーニー (gānī)
• Maori: kauamo wīra
• Portuguese: marquesa (pt), maca (pt) f
• Russian: ката́лка (ru) f (katálka)
• Serbo-Croatian: ležeća kolica n pl
• Spanish: camilla (es) f

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