paramedic

From para- +‎ medic.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpæɹəˈmɛdɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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paramedic (plural paramedics)

1. A person trained to medically stabilize people through various interventions for victims of trauma or medical events outside of a hospital setting and prepare them for transport to a medical facility.
2. (US) A person who is licensed at the state or national level to practice medical interventions in an emergency prehospital setting.

• medic (functionally synonymous in some contexts but not necessarily idiomatically interchangeable)

• paraclinical
• paramedical

• EMS, emergency medical services
• EMT, emergency medical technician

• preadamic

Borrowed from English paramedic. By surface analysis, para- +‎ medic.

paramedic m or n (feminine singular paramedică, masculine plural paramedici, feminine and neuter plural paramedice)

1. paramedical

paramedic m (plural paramedici)

1. paramedic