Glossary

Paramedic: "a person who is trained to assist a physician or to give first aid or other health care in the absence of a physician, often as part of a police, rescue, or firefighting squad."

Ambulance: "a specially equipped motor vehicle, airplane, ship, etc., for carrying sick or injured people, usually to a hospital."

Injury: "a particular form or instance of harm."

Hemorrhage: "a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding."

Pathology: "any deviation from a healthy, normal, or efficient condition. "

Diaphoresis: "perspiration, especially when artificially induced. "

Sphygmomanometer: "an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery."

Lungs: "either of the two saclike respiratory organs in the thorax of humans and the higher vertebrates."

Siren : "an implement of this kind used as a whistle, fog signal, or warning device. "

Vaccine: "any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production."

Bronchitis: "acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining of the bronchial tubes, caused by respiratory infection or exposure to bronchial irritants, as cigarette smoke. "

Hand-barrow: "a frame with handles at each end by which it is carried. "

Sources: dictionnary.com
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