A gurney is a wheeled bed for moving patients. Wheel in the gurney, strapped to a gurney, load the gurney.
It is the American word; British hospitals say trolley. The modern kind has legs that fold as it is loaded into an ambulance, so one person can manage it. The name may come from a horse-drawn cab patented by Theodore Gurney in the 1880s.
1noungurneyA wheeled bed for moving patients.
“The paramedics wheeled him into the hospital on a gurney.”
gurney is a wheeled bed.
The origin is uncertain. It may come from a cab patented by Theodore Gurney in about 1883.
unknown. Possibly from Gurney cab, a type of horse-drawn cab on wheels named after Theodore Gurney, the US inventor credited with creating and patenting it in about 1883. For the surname, see Gurney.
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