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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
medevac

1966, U.S. military, formed from elements of medical evacuation.

Wiktionary
medevac

alt. 1 The emergency transportation, usually by air, of patients to a medical facility. 2 A vehicle used for emergency transportation of patients to a medical facility. 3 Trained personnel who care for patients during emergency transportation to a medical facility. n. 1 The emergency transportation, usually by air, of patients to a medical facility. 2 A vehicle used for emergency transportation of patients to a medical facility. 3 Trained personnel who care for patients during emergency transportation to a medical facility. vb. To transport patients by medevac.

WordNet
medevac

n. the evacuation of persons (usually be air transportation) to a place where they can recieve medical care [syn: medical evacuation, medivac]

Usage examples of "medevac".

Rescue medevac operation to perform search-and-rescue missions in space.

She signaled the cargo hold and told the medevac team to board the ESV, then relayed their plans to the clutch of miners below.

As soon as the medevac teams arrived to launch their submersibles, he had persuaded a nurse to allow him to return to the URD with them.

He had never approved of the medevac program and considered it a waste of time that could be better devoted to patrolling.

Dair waited until her gunner had opened their secured channel so that the medevac team could hear her.

More remnants of a past burned away beneath the blazing twin suns, Shan guessed, and stayed at the back of the medevac team as Dair led them toward one of the outcroppings fringing the settlement.

Shan stayed to the back of the medevac team, listening intently as they filed inside.

Of course, we were told that any wounded North Vietnamese we carry to the LZ, and they would medevac them out to the medical stations.

Khe Sanh, in charge of medevac and graves registration for the combat base.

I swiftly put together the medevac teams, handed out protective vests and communication headsets, and only argued briefly about who was going on the shuttle.

He vaguely recalled being carried to the medevac helicopter and the ride, like a floating dream, out to sea.

I told Lieutenant Tyson that if Peterson had any chance at all, it was to get him on a medevac chopper.

Had the paramedics called one of the two black choppers for Medevac without clearing this with him?

Sergeant Green switched from external to the medevac frequency and started coaching in the birds.

In the distance Mike heard the flutter of a suicidally brave medevac pilot coming into the landing zone.