Associations to the word «Paramedic»

Wiktionary

PARAMEDIC, noun. An individual trained to medically stabilize people through various interventions, victims of trauma or medical events outside of a hospital setting and preparing them for transport to a medical facility.
PARAMEDIC, noun. (US) An individual who is licensed at the state or national level to practice medical interventions in an emergency pre-hospital setting.

Dictionary definition

PARAMEDIC, noun. A person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope