emergency room

1. 1.

   a room in a hospital or clinic staffed and equipped to provide emergency care to persons requiring immediate medical treatment

   SynonymsER

   Broaderhospital room

Questions about emergency room

What does emergency room mean?

emergency room means "a room in a hospital or clinic staffed and equipped to provide emergency care to persons requiring immediate medical treatment".

What is another word for emergency room?

Close synonyms include ER. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is emergency room a common word?

emergency room is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.