medical evacuation

1. 1.

   the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care

   Synonymsmedevacmedivac

   Broaderevacuation

Questions about medical evacuation

What does medical evacuation mean?

medical evacuation means "the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care".

What is another word for medical evacuation?

Close synonyms include medevac, medivac. 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 medical evacuation a common word?

medical evacuation 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.