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PARAMEDIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does paramedic mean?
• PARAMEDIC (noun)
The noun PARAMEDIC has 1 sense:
1. a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment
Familiarity information: PARAMEDIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
paramedic; paramedical
Hypernyms ("paramedic" is a kind of...):
paraprofessional (a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional)
Derivation:
paramedical (of or denoting a person who is trained to assist physicians and nurses in their activities)
Context examples
Some EMTs are paramedics - they have training to do medical procedures on site.
(Emergency Medical Services, NIH)
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