medivac


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medivac

(ˈmɛdɪˌvæk)
n, vb -vacs, -vacking or -vacked
(Automotive Engineering) a variant spelling of medevac
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.medivac - the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical caremedivac - the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care
evacuation - the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection
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class="selectionShareableThe Senate, which will sit next week, is due for a final vote on the government's push to repeal the Medivac laws, which Scott Morrison took to the May 18 election.
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The ship also conducted a delicate medivac operation of a French fisherman who had suffered a heart attack.
The company's founder, Lou Paradise, an accomplished physiology and natural medicines researcher, was inspired to develop Topical BioMedics' flagship patented pain relief and healing technology, Topricin, initially as a means to treat the war injuries he endured from the physical demands of serving as a decorated helicopter combat Medivac crew chief in the U.S.
And so that's what I started to do, and I got on the radio and started to call for air support and medivac because we had two seriously injured individuals.
Black Hawk medivac helicopter crashed near Fallujah, Iraq, killing all nine soldiers aboard.
1998) (protecting the right to broadcast conversations surreptitiously recorded in a medivac helicopter, but offering no protection for the right to record the conversations in the first place).
His poems, like those of the veteran who attended the workshop and like many other poems not written for publication, described both ordinary and singular events: the sunlight coming through the jungle at dawn, the tumult of rushing to a Medivac helicopter as it bounced to a landing, embracing strangers who'd just emerged from a firefight as though they were long lost brothers.
Belgium has said it will contribute two C-130 transport planes and a medivac helicopter to the offensive, while Britain and Canada have offered troop transporters and the United States has pledged to share intelligence and provide logistical support.
A UN Medivac helicopter sent to collect the wounded was delayed for three hours in Kadugli, South Kordofan's main city, when Sudanese forces threatened to shoot at it.